hide yo checks, hide yo likes
this post was submitted on 31 Aug 2023
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Disgusting, everybody has a right to privacy, privacy settings shouldn't be behind a paywall.
Exactly this! Now if only Lemmy would let us hide our likes as well...
I think that would break the system
Federated content is public by design.
Ah yes. Paying for privacy on a walled garden website. Genius business moves.
Good change, would’ve been better on a nicer website, like Twitter pre-2016.
Personally I've always considered a like to be more or less a retweet. I'm super picky about what I like because I know it's going to the feed of my subscribers
Right. If I wanted to save something I would copy the url.
I hated how Twitter likes influenced the algorithm. A subject-specific account I had there had its feed all messed up when I liked anything not on topic for me. So I had to use them strategically, which was a pain.
Uhg, Twitter. Just die already!
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.
This comes after rival social networks Threads and Bluesky rolled out the ability for users to see their own likes in the past few weeks.
Paid users on X now have a setting under profile customization that lets them hide the likes tab.
But Musk has added another incentive to the paid tier that allows users to like posts without worrying about others looking at them.
Earlier this month, X started allowing subscribers to hide their verification checkmark, probably so they can avoid this meme.
However, if a user decides to hide their likes tab, they are giving away the fact that they paid for the subscription anyway.
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This is becoming like the paid to win games. Whales take all.
How technological.