sometimes when I talk about really elaborate ways to avoid blocking someone, I get a response that's like, "why not just block?" and I think I'm really hypersensitive to pissing someone off so much that they hunt you down on other channels, etc. might be some childhood shit...
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I think I probably estimate my odds of being murdered by a hater higher than most men with my kind of following. I think women are generally more sensitive to this i'm not saying I walk around afraid, but it's a thing I could genuinely see happening in my lifetime
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"lol who wants to murder some guy on twitter" it's not that I'm on twitter, but there are certainly people in the world who think I shouldn't exist, and act accordinglyhttps://twitter.com/visakanv/status/990237868885868544 …
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Visakan Veerasamy Retweeted 𝟕𝔦𝔪𝔬𝔫𝔠𝔢𝔩𝔩𝔬
Oh man I am extremely 100% behind this. User not found is the right approach, I would feel a lot better about it. Going to advocate for thishttps://twitter.com/7imoncello/status/1265528769919561730 …
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v different energy. I can imagine someone getting angry about receiving "You're blocked" – how fucking dare he??? but if it's "user not found" it's more like "huh weird" a really motivated hater will whip themselves into a fury anyway, tru, but the app doesn't have to incite itpic.twitter.com/YMIHrsqJQI
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I wish there was a way to just “hit the back button for you.” “Sorry you don’t like my stuff. The Internet is full of things you’ll like better. *deprioritizes my stuff in your bubble* There, now you only find me if you seek me out. May you find happiness.”
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Doesn't soft blocking effectively do that?
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It doesn’t if e.g. you’re densely connected in their social graph, since people they follow will cause your stuff to appear in “their” feed.
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Some people will respond to this positively, by muting you, but some people either don’t know that is an option or, and this is one of my heretical beliefs about the world, affirmatively prefer having someone to lash out at periodically than to be bored.
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Twitter could choose a different path, to e.g. automatically deprioritize content you will find annoying. I think they don’t, extremely intentionally, because content you find annoying/offensive/etc is great for engagement.
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Good point about the algo surfacing your tweets if you have a lot of mutuals. Never quite thought of that. But yeah, hellsite is definitely a feature, not a bug.
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