I just genuinely wonder if blocking people that don't agree with you is a good strategy.
I guess over time things also changed, Tailwind 2y ago was not the same as Tailwind now. They hired a bigger team and became much more of a company.
Nobody owes you their attention.
My 3 blog posts were a genuine attempt at trying to dissect what I didn't like about the framework. Many people wrote in to thank me for that perspective.
I find it unfair to single out two historical tweets neither of which is directed at the authors.
If you are going to trash my product, I'm absolutely going to block you. If I have a say in what the company that sells that product does, I will absolutely have that company block you.
No one is owed anyone in this scenario, but it's just crappy behaviour from Tailwind. They probably are just tired from the negativity, I mean just look at their site the framework does look terrible, they even admit to this with this quote on their site front and center:
"If you can suppress the urge to retch long enough to give it a chance, I really think you'll wonder how you ever worked with CSS any other way."
Even though the code is offensive to the senses, it apparently works really well. Judging from the adoption and the beautifully designed UI's they are showcasing people do recognise its usefulness.
Where is the problem that justifies blocking?
You can block anyone on social media for any reason or no reason at all and you don’t have to justify it to anyone.
But social convention was my point - the social convention is it's always fine to block and you never need to explain, in my opinion.