The “Readers added context” feature is the only good thing about Twitter.

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    I’m kinda having hard time understanding this. Bypassing blocks in Twitter was always so trivial, essentially same as mute. Just open the profile on another account or incognito.

    Official twitter app even supports multiple accounts by default.

    Only way to actually prevent unwanted people from interacting with you was to make your profile private so you can approve every follower individually.

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      1 year ago

      Exactly. If someone wants to see your public tweets, they will no matter how blocked they are. It’s a mountain out of a mole hill. When account creation is free and without restriction people will abuse it.

      As long as mute exists that’s all that’s needed.

    • WhyIsItReal [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      1 year ago

      a big reason to have block is so that you can’t get quote tweeted by a much bigger account. if you block them, they can’t put you on blast. even though they can circumvent the block with a different account, it won’t have as much reach.