I've gotten into the habit of posting my opinions on my own site because it simply makes them a bit more concrete and enduring.<p>I am so tired of wasting time in posting to apps/sites like Twitter and Reddit, they really have no interest in fostering a community. Everything is intentionally on rails that we cannot operate within. The Social Media aspect only serves to cover up the real focus.<p>It's good to finally begin to see that people are acknowledging the deceptively engineered flaws in our current tech world.<p>Here's my personal opinion about this:<p><a href="http://circuitbored.com/communicate/viewtopic.php?p=218" rel="nofollow">http://circuitbored.com/communicate/viewtopic.php?p=218</a><p>My Twitter account is likely to be "autobanned" as a result of posting it, but I pretty much resigned from it long ago anyway. :P
Just like how YouTube is using bots for auto-banning and demonetizing users. Now Twitter will have a similar process for users.<p>Like I said, These companies will never change and it is only going to get worse.
Obviously those complaining about the feature have never been subject to massive spam or abusive behaviour (which only takes a bit of digging to find out multiple cases)<p>It's fine if you don't see the point but the attitude "works for me so it doesn't need "fixing" is being naive of other people's needs
No precise definition of what constitutes repetitive, spammy or abusive replies. They even say "indiscriminate" following & unrelated hashtags can get the user autoblocked, which sounds like overreach. Considering some replies far exceed the silly Twitter character limit necessitating multiple replies, will those be struck down by autoblock as "repetitive"?<p>Twitter seems to be slowly moving in the direction of FB, which is already a moribund graveyard. Shooting themselves in the foot by diluting their key strengths? Seems sensible.
Awesome, now I don't have to make my bubble myself, I can just have Twitter block everyone that may have a different opinion on a matter outright.
This reminds me of why I closed my Twitter. The final straw was I was tweeting back and forth with someone directly, and discovered it was not giving me notifications of their replies. If I would go open my last tweet, their reply would be hidden under some kind of “more tweets…” interface. I realized it was automatically but lightly suppressing the other party’s tweets to me.<p>I am talking to someone directly, it’s a mild conversation and a computer is jumping in the way like a secret service agent in front of the President.<p>Can I refuse the computer’s “help” in deciding who is allowed to address me? No? Ok — it’s broken.<p>After a year of regular use I deleted my account at once.<p>If I feel like doom scrolling now, I use Instagram. There is no rage on Instagram. It shows me chicks, rockets and vintage computers.
This seems like a really stupid idea, reminds me a little bit of the Google auto-account-closing thing where no-one knows the real logic or algorithm behind it. And that doesn't work great at all either, as one can see by the countless HN threads of people getting their whole businesses destroyed due to that. Is one even going to get notified when someone gets auto-blocked by Twitter for them?
"detects and blocks potentially harmful language or repetitive, unwelcome interactions"<p>I couldn't see anything about an opt-in or opt-out for it. When they call it 'safety-mode' are they saying its something you enable yourself?