Elon Musk, the nobody with too much money... for now! [he will still be a nobody though]
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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Wow! I just use an alt for my shit posting and likes. Guess my raciest uncle hasn’t figured that out yet thankfully.
This platform is dying a slow slow death. Really wish more people where on Mastodon
Please tell me you meant racist and not raciest
That would be impossible, for I am the raciest uncle!
Edit: And before my inbox fills up, I'm only into Weird Aunts with a balanced cat/tattoo ratio.
what's your take on weird aunts with tattoos of cats?
That's an instant X2 score modifier right there.
That's such a good photo. And by good I mean Trump-tier
Am I the only one that thought this was a picture of Kim Jong Un?
I’d be ok with just “X is about to start hiding.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
That means what users like on the platform will be hidden by default, which is already an option for X’s Premium subscribers.
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!”
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.
Late last year, Musk told the platform’s engineers that he wanted to get rid of the tweet action buttons altogether and instead place a stronger emphasis on post views (also called “impressions”).
“Social media in general is shifting away from like counts, so this makes sense,” the source said.
Update, June 11th: Added Elon Musk’s confirmation of The Verge’s reporting.
The original article contains 271 words, the summary contains 140 words. Saved 48%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!
Y tho.
Answering honestly: so that shitty people can like shitty things without the consequences. They can broadcast their views without having to answer for them, and down the line it's easier to manipulate likes so Elon can sell likes or remove likes from anything he pleases, which allows twitter to create "public opinion" that won't be in line with actual public opinion.
YouTube is totally gonna copy this.
is there any other social platform that hasn't always done this?
What platforms hide your likes?
lemmy, reddit, youtube
Lemmy technically doesn't hide your likes - the interface might not show you, but all your likes are public in the Fediverse. Kbin, when I used it, would show which users upvoted/downvoted a post. That's important because it means researchers and OSI people can still do fact finding - Twitter doesn't like the idea of having to be open even if it's a requirement (albeit to researchers specifically) in the EU now.