Twitter is much more connected to a lot of people's actual identities as it was also a space for organizations, businesses and other public figures to post to the general public, with these accounts being run mostly by the public figure themselves, and PR for the really rich people and orgs. As such protections on Twitter needed to be as broad as possible.

All fences are scalable and climbable, but as the other user was saying, it's good to make that climb harder for the bad actors in this scenario.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

If somebody's being an antagonistic asshole they get banned pretty much immediatly because the mods understand there's nothing of value from some nazi coming in and quoting fbi crime statistics everytime somebody says you shouldn't murder black people.

Also nobody gives a shit about them reading your post it's the part where they respond like a nazi would that people have a problem with.

You can literally say "disengage" on this website to stop that shit and if the person keeps being a tool they can get banned just for that.

So yea that very much is what's happening here.

[–] edge@hexbear.net 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I think you're misunderstanding the change here. The change is solely about a blocked user being able to read the posts of the person who blocked them. This has nothing to do with banning or stopping them from being able to reply.

[–] Adkml@hexbear.net 3 points 4 days ago

Oh shit my bad if they already can't reply to the post yea this seems trivial.

Sorry, don't use Twitter I thought this meant blocked users could see your posts and respond to them you just couldn't see their posts.

Im a dumbass and I apologize for wasting everyone's time.