2/ No single person is curating a list of 100,000 people. They're using automated means to do so. Most of that is a sloppy kludge for a missing social interaction-distance filter feature. But the outcome drives a lot of fuckery.
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3/ When one person makes the block decision and it propagates to subscribers without any additional integrated context, there is a tendency to create bubbles which filter on identity. _ <says> X? NO MATCH Stereotype(_) <says> X? MATCH
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4/ The end result is that people end up implicitly belonging to a group that isn't merely homogenous — which, is desirable for many people, anyway — but one that is easily identifiable by anyone else, especially when it's cultural signifiers start to bloom (e.g. inside jokes).
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5/ It's a social fission engine.
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6/ Again, I'm not saying "don't block" or "don't mute" or "TrUsT tHe MaRkEtPlAcE oF iDeAs" or "fuck your safe space." I'm saying that I think the existing means of combating abuse on here tends to manufacture more of it.
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I have wound up on some kind of block list because I am now seeing the "this user controls who can see their tweets" far more often than I did just a month ago. I wonder what thoughtcrime I committed
Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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