I think the dynamics of blocking are really interesting. I don't understand people who use this platform primarily to teach doing it.
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Replying to @KillerMartinis
I get not wanting to see someone; I mute constantly. Seems like a personal preference but also a bit counterproductive?
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But I'm wildly fascinated by those random times you find out you've been blocked by someone you've never interacted with. It's common.
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Not that it happens to me a ton, but I hear people talk about it with some regularity. And I wonder if there's people who just wander >
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through the twitterverse finding things to be offended at and think "I'll show THEM" and hit block, though that person won't likely know.
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Replying to @KillerMartinis
No, it's almost certainly through use of a blockchain extension
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And it's because muting doesn't stop people directing attention at your tweets to do pile-ons
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I've always found blocking one of them triggers the rest to come play. Like LOOK WE BOTHERED HER and it's off to the races.
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That's exactly why you block pre-emptively before there is a triggering interaction
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Anyway for me it's simple, there's vast swathes of this site I don't want to be on the same site with in the first place
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And it's a design flaw of social media that increasingly you find everyone in one big pool when 20 years ago that never would've happened
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I must have pissed someone off, then, because I do find it in the weirdest places.
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