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X is rolling out its controversial update to the block feature, allowing people to view your public posts even if you have blocked them. People have protested this change, arguing that they don’t want blocked users to see their posts for reasons of safety.

Blocked users still can’t follow the person who has blocked them, engage with their posts, or send direct messages to them.

An old version of X’s support page says blocked users couldn’t see a user’s following and followers lists. The company has now updated the page to remove that reference, and it now allows users to see the following and followers lists of the people who have blocked them.

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[-] ekZepp@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago

If this won't piss off the x users I don’t know what will.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 26 points 1 day ago

Anyone still posting there is probably not going to leave. Either way, it's not like this block was hard to circumvent, you could just log out or use a different browser to see the posts by someone that blocked you, so this doesn't really change a lot.

[-] illi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Pretty sure at this point nothing will

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I've always just muted users instead of blocking anyway. I don't care if they see what I post. I just want them out of my sight

[-] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago
> calling twitter X
[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 24 points 2 days ago

Can’t you see public posts of anyone if you are not logged in?

[-] Chozo@fedia.io 10 points 2 days ago

I think you can't see anything recent, only posts a year or older until you log in.

[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

Lots of non-answers but to clarify - yes but no comments.

Sometimes a login wall might block you but if you refresh a couple of times it should work.

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Sometimes. Occasionally the site requires you to log in.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

But if the argument is blocked users should see your posts for safety reasons, then shouldn’t any anonymous non-logged-in user also not be able to see your posts?

[-] PunnyName@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Twitter "privacy" has never really been a thing. Everything was public for the longest time. You never needed to be logged in in order to see posts.

With Musk's acquisition, there are some changes (that I personally haven't cared enough to nail down) that came down the pipe where logging in is required. This was an issue for a lot of people because Twitter has been a public forum for so long.

Then there's the ability to just make a new account.

[-] Sunshine@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 day ago

This is terrible for the remaining marginalized users on there. Blocking should become more strict not the other way around.

[-] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago

Why do marginalized users keep using that website at all?

[-] The__the@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago

x is garbage

[-] ContrarianTrail@lemm.ee 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

So Twitter is one step closer to being like Lemmy

[-] Grimy@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago

Lemmy let's them respond to you even when blocked. Kind of funny to block someone for harassment and still see a comment removed pop up behind one of my comments a few hours later.

I find it fair in a way, I just wish it hid it from me completely since curiosity usually gets the best out of me. I've only had to block one person this whole time anyways, so it's really not the end of the world either.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world -4 points 1 day ago

In other news: X stops supporting commonly circumvented support of a non workable feature.

I have a SHOCKING idea. Don't post publicly if you don't want unwanted readers. I know I know really radical shit.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

I agree, bunch of naive folks who can't stop.

[-] Skipcast@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

Can they quote posts from people who have them blocked? If so I can see that being abused for "raiding" someone constantly

[-] timewarp@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

And in other news, X still requires users to sign in to see almost anything.

[-] IsThisAnAI@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

And in other news it's trivial to have 100s of accounts.

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