scratch that out my friend said every other tweet already has like 50k likes lmao
it's already happening just with bots, now they wont even need the bots anymore to pump the numbers lol
Musk would have to hide retweets, which could be a problem for a social media site that runs on retweeting.
Also, half the time they out themselves by replying.
"what was a ratio?"
>there used to be "dislikes"
"what was a ratio?"
>there used to be numbers representing likes and dislikes.
I'd say "life comes at you fast", but it seems like the end comes atcha even faster.
Actually,
there was an experimental down-vote functionality shortly before the Twitter sale.
I was able to down-vote replies. There was no count shown and it probably only affected the order replies were shown.
It was removed along with the "speed-up" changes.
yeah i remember that. i think some people had it and some didn't. i had it briefly, and then it was suddenly gone again and i wondered if it was something i did that took it away.
It's weird seeing people here complain about this when Bluesky does this too? I can't just crawl through anyone's liked posts on this thread, and I think that's a very good thing. Frankly I don't know why likes should ever be public by default
I know that Likes are visible on your own account, but for example I can't go through your Likes tab, like I hypothetically could on twitter (though I'm not familiar with bsky's API, so maybe I could if I really wanted to).
Why shouldn’t they be visible? You’re making a public action by validating a post. I can like or dislike something without clicking a heart if I want to keep it a secret.
Couple of reasons:
1. It is easy to misclick on both mobile and web. I've found many posts in my "liked" tab on all sites that I know damn well I didn't intend to click (think ads, etc).
2. I think reposts are just the better feature for public action. It's a lot more deliberate.
(1/x)
3. While I 100% understand the function of public likes in validating whether or not someone is a bigot etc, I think that public likes are easier for scumbags to weaponize against others. Especially if you interact with local content, it can create a seriously nasty paper trail (doxxing, etc). (2/x)
3.5. People can do some seriously fucked up things on the Internet if they find out enough about you. Extrapolating that to millions of people, some less tech savvy than others, leads to forced public likes being a serious security risk for a lot of people who don't know it. (3/4)
The way a "like" is framed is also more personal than the actual implementation. The name and the heart icon imply some level of privacy. For the average user, they probably didn't even know they were public.
So while I think it should be an option, public likes by default does more harm than good.
hes definitely doing this because too many nazis and pedos have been outed as nazis and pedos due to people checking their likes and theyve complained to him that this is happening to them and he likes his nazis and pedos so he will protect them
"....because “many people feel discouraged” to like “edgy” content."
So create a ton of "egdy"/neo-Nazi accounts, let the idiots like them under the assumed anonymity through solidarity and then publicly reveal who the likes are since the account holder can still see them...?
