It really isn’t because “out of sight, out of mind” is really a thing and it gives stalkers/ragers time to calm down after they’ve been rejected. I mean you can always use a second account to read it, but I’m sure that many people moved on after being blocked which is huge plus for people being harassed by trolls and even scarier people .
> it gives stalkers/ragers time to calm down after they’ve been rejected
But afaik it's just right click -> open in private window to see the profile as the open internet would see it. Takes a second.
It's the same on reddit. If someone replies to you and immediately blocks you (which is a bit of a funny pattern lately), you'd normally switch to logged out mode to read it.
Mobile takes this into account as well: In RedReader (for reddit), you can just use the three dot menu to view it as a not registered user.
I feel that giving users the ability to play around with this kind of hoops and tricks stirs up emotions instead of calming them down.
In general: I don't know of a single scenario where it would be wise to create a situation where logging in on a platform reduces access to its content.
You can see someone's profile and top-engagement tweets logged out, but if you want to see anything recent or specific you need to be logged in, which means there's the friction of a second Twitter account, at least.
You shouldn’t be able to stand on a soapbox and tell certain people to cover their ears.
Twitter allows you to send messages to your followers specifically, Facebook allows you to send it to your friends etc.
Social media is bad enough already for public discourse and the way blocks work on it just made things worse.
Reddit is arguably even worse, block is basically used to have the last word and the entire chain of comments is deleted only for you as others can continue to comment in it.
The reason why social media did this is because they were lazy and didn’t want to take responsibility for policing their userbase. But this doesn’t make a better product.
Places like Reddit shouldn’t allow you to block users at all other than from directly PMing you.
If you don’t want to participate in a public debate don’t. There shouldn’t be a tool that would allow you to decide who else participates in it.
I really don’t understand why this concept is so confusing to people this days.
