Yeah, can we get the corollary that follows the people who disagree with the blocked parties but that has the same political alignment as the blocked party?
I'm certain I'll be fine, and survive without flat Earthers, 5G-causes-COVID, and similar ilk. That's a critical lack of, ironically, critical thinking skills in windmill-type people that this Don Quixote instance considers not worth time nor nerves fighting with nor for.
Out of curiosity, how would you be seeing that on Twitter in the first place? The blocking need seems more like addressing a symptom, where the root problem is whatever system or algorithm showed you that stuff at all.
Right? I always hear this type of whining but every time I use Twitter I find cool projects and interesting discussion. The more mainstream threads are mostly noise and I don't pay a lot of mind to them. Many of the political shitposts are funny even if I disagree.
How great would it be to separate off the mediocrity who think every conversation has to be about their amazing take on CO2 and their envro cult links on Wikipedia to Jevons paradox and the precautionary principle.
Why would I want their take on the latest version of PHP? It'd be great to be in a chamber of accelerated ideas where they stick. Nothing echoes on HN for instance.
It's an interesting experiment, if people used it.
I think the unforgiveness is the problem. People should be able to make some mistakes. This might output middle ground ideas or might create a 'like'-less subculture.
> I think the unforgiveness is the problem. People should be able to make some mistakes.
Wholeheartedly agreed - the “Internet never forgets” is a related problem, although I've also seen some apparent “forgetting” over years.
Accordingly I liberally use a timed “ignore” function on some forums I participate in. So I can block people for a while, in the hope that their posting misbehaviour is lack of experience and/or just having a bad moment in life.
I don't think getting isolated from Rabbit breeders to dwelve in a lazy cat pictures bubble is something to lament about.