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X Confirms Plan to Make 'Likes' Private, Remove Likes Tab From Profiles (www.macrumors.com)
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[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 37 points 5 months ago

I'm not a big Twitter user to begin with, so I assumed based on the title that it was going to be similar to YouTube disabling the dislike counter.

This is making the list of posts you've "Liked" private. Saved you a click.

Personally I'd like this to be a toggleable feature like Reddit has (had?), but otherwise, yeah seems like an obtuse change, I don't understand the why behind it.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 67 points 5 months ago

People might not want to make it obvious that they support Nazi shit. This will make it easier for them to do so covertly.

[-] Fedizen@lemmy.world 53 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

My guess is that its to cover up patterns of this to protect specific rich guys from lawsuits. As a bonus it means its easier to add and subtract likes from posts without leaving clear evidence.

So Elon himself can add 10,000 likes to an antisemitic post or subtract the likes from say somebody making fun of a cybertruck.

[-] jonne@infosec.pub 18 points 5 months ago

The reason is probably that too many people got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

[-] Breve@pawb.social 19 points 5 months ago

The reason is that Elon Musk got caught liking questionable content through the likes page.

[-] PoliticalAgitator@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It also makes it nearly impossible for independent researchers to uncover bot networks and AstroTurfing, just in time for fully automated AI propaganda.

[-] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago

Which is ridiculous, it's a fine webcomic.

[-] andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.works 14 points 5 months ago

Besides what others say it also strenghtens monopoly on information, a resource used in research, but also valuable in creating hyped up LLMs (like Reddit did closing their API). Likes can be used to map which groups like what, which content is seen as valuable, singling out bot networks from organic reactions etc etc. This information enriches datasets you can gather (without paying Musk?).

I would probably vouch for that info to be accessible to either no one or anyone. Twitter is still a public square where politicians and orgs announce stuff and leave their official remarks, so it's more valuable if it's transparent. And we also had some scandals with famous douches liking controversal shit or just porn from their main accounts (:

[-] m13@lemmy.world 13 points 5 months ago

It’s because Elon keeps getting caught out liking and boosting blatant white supremacist stuff. Who knows why. He really doesn’t seem to mind everyone knowing the fact that he’s a neo-Nazi.

[-] spongebue@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

"Huh, I hadn't really considered this [kinda racist when you think about it] view, but it's actually pretty popular [by bots] so maybe there's something to this!"

[-] warm@kbin.earth 1 points 5 months ago

Likes and the like should be public, then there's no tampering and people who like the insane shit can't hide that fact. Dunno why people are still using that platform regardless.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 23 points 5 months ago

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[-] tabular@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I tried searching for this but couldn't find it, thanks.

[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 12 points 5 months ago

X gon give it to ya

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 5 months ago

What?

[-] Phegan@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

X gon give it to ya

[-] USSEthernet@startrek.website 3 points 5 months ago

We gon give it to ya

[-] JustARegularNerd@aussie.zone 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think that’s a Hermitcraft reference, and I did not expect to see that on Lemmy of all places.

If you look up Hermitcraft S6 rap battle I think there’s a segment where Xisumavoid (sometimes called X) raps that

Edit: Jesus Christ this is embarrassing

[-] ondoyant@beehaw.org 13 points 5 months ago

its from the DMX track "X gon' give it to ya". it came out in 2002.

[-] gorogorochan@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can’t tell if this is sarcasm or not.

Just in case it isn’t - it’s obviously reference to late DMX’s legendary song with the same title.

[-] tabular@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

It's a reference to ⛳ Tiger Woods PGA tour 2004

[-] Dippy@beehaw.org 4 points 5 months ago

Must be for Ted Cruz

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Xitter is doing something I want? What's the catch?

[-] Heavybell@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

I never liked the idea of my "likes" being a browsable list. What's the point of retweeting, if likes are browsable?

Glad it 's finally changing. Broken clock, I guess.

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