Which led to BlockTogether as a tool to let anyone export and share their blocklist
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KillerMartinis
Then in 2014 Gamergate happened and the Gamergate Autoblocker got well known for auto-generating a constant blocklist based on followers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KillerMartinis
And now there's the Blockchain extension for Chrome that lets anyone do it to anyone's followers
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KillerMartinis
It's not ideal but it's the best you can get with Twitter having such primitive privacy settings compared to Facebook
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Replying to @arthur_affect
My journalist-brain is kind of fascinated by this all. Now I want to know who else is on the lists that I must be on.
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Replying to @KillerMartinis
A lot of people started blockchaining because of the primaries
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Replying to @arthur_affect
that'd do it. I critiqued everyone and endorsed nobody.
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Replying to @KillerMartinis
No it was probably based on someone you follow
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Replying to @arthur_affect
I do follow widely. I'd think most responsible journos would, though.
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Replying to @KillerMartinis
Yeah so journalists are likely to get blockchained
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Feature, not a bug, since one of the things people use blockchain for is to avoid having tweets publicized without their consent
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KillerMartinis
Pushback against the Gawker "Everything on Twitter is inherently public" manifesto
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Replying to @arthur_affect
That actually makes perfect fucking sense. Wish people would parse real vs. lazy but that's a lot to ask tbh
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