> People should be constantly exposed to viewpoints that are against their own
People should constantly be exposed to death threats?
> and will have to do so with incarceration, beating, bullets, poison, nukes etc.!
Are you arguing that trans people who block exterminationists for their own peace of mind are themselves creating a bubble who "cannot be reached" and will therefore .. have to be exterminated? Maybe you're not saying that, but it's very unclear? Are you sure you don't want to cool down the violent rhetoric a bit?
I'm not saying that "trans people who block exterminationists" is not a legitimate use case for such a feature.
Just that you can't engineer it so that only such use cases can be enabled by it, and most people using it will be "muh, stop advocating vaccines to me, wanna keep my blood pure" or equivalent types :| I probably have less faith in humanity than you do :)
> and most people using it will be "muh, stop advocating vaccines to me, wanna keep my blood pure" or equivalent types
I don't think so, partly because it's not "those types" that seem to be building these tools which they would if it was a priority for them, and partly because those people already have effective barriers inside their own head. Sometimes it seems like they need the opposite view so they can get angry about it.
In other words, they can't be reached because of who they follow, not because of who they block.
Your argument falls apart because when everyone in the room has a megaphone screaming at each other the signal to noise ratio drops so far that it's no longer worth being in the room.
You will have to mute or kickout some people from the room just to have any kind of coherent understanding of what's going on in there.
That's perfectly OK too: some rooms don't serve their purpose anymore and need to be disbanded and replaced with other sets of rooms.
But imo Twitter still has a very good signal to noise ration if you use it for keeping up with things (NOT for friendly networking, it was never intended for that) and/or disseminating content that you find harder to spread on other channels.
Well that's the point of this feature, you build your room. By definition with social media there is too much for one person to consume so you must pick and choose. If you are curating your room this is just another feature to help you do so.
