Codarobo

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Some kinda large possum-dragon thing. I make art and games and worlds and code.

I also make and release music as b.trx!

pfp: uncommoncritter



Beancatte
@Beancatte
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bytebat
@bytebat

figured i'd ramble chime in on this since while thinking about this i just debunked one of my own counterarguments to blocking. as a lonely neurodivergent person with social anxiety, i have a lot of irrational feelings about social interaction. among them is the worry that if i block people too easily, i might miss out on potential friendships over like one post someone made. and this extends further to things like blocklists, where sometimes people can end up on a blocklist for unfair reasons and get blocked en masse by thousands of people they've never even met. the whole concept of blocking can feel like a self-isolating, self-sabotaging behavior. and i'm certain that for various reasons such as these, there are lots of cool people out there i will never find or be friends with, which makes me sad.

but the thing is, there's kind of a lot of people out there. you know, like, billions? statistically, all of the people i will ever interact with on this planet is just a rounding error. and that's not cynical, it's actually freeing, because it means that blocking two or three or a hundred people has functionally no impact on relationships i can build online. i'll inevitably end up blocking someone who turned out to be a cool person, but amongst the millions of other cool people out there i'll probably be okay.


DiscoDeerDiary
@DiscoDeerDiary

I once befriended a girl who had previously had me blocked, probably through an automated blocklist. But, y'know after meeting me in person (friend of a friend) she found me on Twitter and unblocked me. This just to say that blocking itself isn't even the end.

EDIT: I'd be remiss if I didn't cite this Tumblr post


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