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[–] billiam0202@lemmy.world 117 points 5 months ago (21 children)

Following the publication of this story, X owner Elon Musk reshared a screenshot of it, saying it’s “important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”

Thin-skinned Nazis don't like being called Nazis for liking other Nazi content.

A few weeks ago, X’s director of engineering, Haofei Wang, said the upcoming change is meant to protect users’ public image — because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content.

That's the fucking point, Wang. Nazis should be discouraged from liking other Nazi content. Society shouldn't tolerate bigots, much less embolden them- the way you and your boss want to do.

[–] tal@lemmy.today 18 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

This seems like an odd medium to make that complaint in; while technically lemmy exposes upvotes to other instances, so it's not really private, the client doesn't, by default, permit upvotes to be seen.

Kbin/mbin does expose upvotes; here's the upvotes on this post, for example:

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Um lemmy exposes it as well, at least for admins

[–] AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Look at all the lurkers, lol.

I've always been curious about who is downvoting my stuff, I know on Reddit I'd occasionally get someone butthurt about my existing on the internet and they'd just go downvote all of my recent posts and comments.

[–] BlueEther@no.lastname.nz 6 points 5 months ago

i've seen it here as well, just not very often

[–] umbrella@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

i will upvote all your recent posts out of spite

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 1 points 5 months ago

It is only for admins and mods. Tbh I think it should just be allowed for anyone to see.

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