since blocking discourse is going around yet again:
the way that other people choose to curate their social media feed is neither your business nor your problem
How is it that people just CANNOT be normal about this?
I block, I’ve been blocked, I mute, I am sure I’ve been muted. It’s fine!
And I mean don’t get me wrong if I fucked up and got blocked by an account I really like following, I’d be bummed, but then I would just like, MOVE ON. 🤷🏻♀️
right - literally a couple hundred people have me blocked at this point including a couple I wish didn’t and you know, that’s their business! they get to make that choice! it’s really not a big deal
yeah but that requires viewing those other people *as people* and not merely as the audience
and the kind of person who actually treats other people like people tends to get blocked less often anyways, so
Correct. Like I generally try to not be a dick, and it keeps me off the lists of decent humans.
But that doesn’t mean they won’t find me annoying or some shit and block me anyway.
It really is just that simple. I have close, real-life friends who I've blocked on other sites because they love to post and retweet porn all day. Which, might I add, I love for them, but it's not what I want to see inserted into my feed via likes and reposts - so I blocked them. No bad blood.
oh absolutely, and that's fine! I'm just sayin', in order to have that kind of perspective you've gotta treat posters like people, not things
and that's a trick the Debate Me Bro people have yet to learn
Micah can, I am certain, recall a quote about treating people like things 😇
And here I block people who seem to get off on being dicks.
I know people find me annoying - they’ve said it to my face - but at least on here we can block the unpleasant people.
Yeah. There's a couple of specific instances that stung, especially since I had liked what they posted and felt their likely reasoning was unfair. But fundamentally it's their choice. I do actually like how absolute blocks are here even if it's a pain sometimes. Just cuts the thread completely.
I post a lot of attempts at jokes. Some don't land. If somebody doesn't want to see that or I missed in such a way that somebody feels the need to block me...then I get blocked. People get to curate their own feeds. I've felt bad about a couple over the years. I probably should have posted better.
@imagine0enigami.bsky.social I think people *REALLY* feel that their voice is *SUPPOSED TO* be heard (by everyone)…that’s what social media did…gave everyone a voice
So maybe people can’t be normal because they’re shocked people don’t *HAVE TO* listen to them?
Just throwing ideas out there 🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️🤷🏾♂️
yeah, this happened to me with somebody that was insistent i hated pancakes, and it was a bummer because i'd enjoyed talking to them for literally years, and some of the disability research and community that had gathered around that account was personally relevant to me 🙃
but like, i only even mentioned it in my feed when it happened because people were continuing to talk from behind the block and dunk on me about stuff that wasn't even my position, and i needed to go to bed
so i left a message that said that and logged off :p
Yeah, I personally left Twitter because it was clear that the site was getting worse due to the rampant transphobia, nazi problem. We don't need that kind of energy here
@estrogenempress.gay has some great lists if you need them.
I also run a PSA feed you can check for people to block/mute as needed.
I swear by them, they've kept me safe so far.
Blocking just means that someone finds you insufferable, does not want to converse or connect with you in any way and can not find a reasonable middle ground to meet you at. Only Twitter chuds would think getting blocked is a W 😅
There are a subset of I absolutely want to find me insufferable and annoying. Fascists and light totalitarianism fandom are free to block me that is actually a win because then they're not sending death threats to me.
The only thing Twitter did under Musk is pull the ass crack lint if humanity from 4chan and give them a platform. If they block you it just means you don't have to hear their bullshit anymore. And good! Haha
At the end of the day, every person gets to - ***has to*** curate their own existence and consumption/participation in it - if only because nobody can be everywhere and do everything.
How we choose to make those decisions is none of your business at all, you imaginary reader, so buzz off. ;-)
As an Indigenous person, when we see accounts that not only actively minimize us, but attack us for speaking out about our oppression like my posts on Indigenous history, we know who and how to bΙоck
There are over a million people on this site and the idea that every single one of them *must* be able to see what I say or let me see what they say is a kind of egotism and entitlement I just can't understand.
