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His reasoning for wanting to do this is so bad and clearly a racist dog whistle; everyone should be able to like things that they would be ashamed to like publicly with their name attached!
I’d be ok with just “X is about to start hiding.”
ex, lol
The funny thing is, it’s not actually hidden if you know how to see them. Just throw “/likes” after a profile. They only hid the fucking button.
This doesn’t work for me
They may actually have fixed it now. Worked all day yesterday for me but it just redirects to the profile URL now for me too.
Hey Elon, wouldn’t it be better for us all to not only show the likes but show the dislikes too? Even on your account.
He has a point though. Just think of Reddit and Lemmy where people mindlessly hive-mind vote some posts. When you see something massively upvoted, you tend to upvote (immediately). Same goes for downvotes. In contrary, if the votes do no show, you only vote when you actually mean it.
Something something "free speech "
That’s such a good photo. And by good I mean Trump-tier
Might have been a bad idea to just let the bots run rampant on his platform.
How else was he supposed to keep the user base up!???
Just another step toward making used-to-be-Twitter a safe space for cowardly fascists.
They’re going the YT route, where the algorithm is in much higher control
can’t have conservative snowflakes getting triggered
In all seriousness, I sort of pity conservatives.
They’re sort of like the one kid in kindergarten who could never manage to figure out which plastic peg went in which hole and would just get frustrated and throw things. Except that they never grew out of it. Here they are, twenty or thirty or sixty years later, still unable to grasp the simple fact that the world just is what it is and the round peg isn’t going to go in the square hole no matter how much you pound on it, and still angry over it, as if it’s some sort of vast conspiracy rather than just the fact that they’re fucking morons.
That has to be an unpleasant way to live.
Of course, they’re such vile and loathsome and destructive assholes that my pity is short-lived, but still…
I think you mean the square peg in the round hole my friend.
Well damn.
No - I very deliberately used round peg in the square hole, initially just to avoid the cliche, but the more I thought about it, the more I liked it.
Conservatives pound on round/natural/organic/smooth pegs to try to force them into square/artificial/contrived/rigid holes.
I liked it anyway…
that’s right - the square hole!
psyche visibly crumbling
Here is an alternative Piped link(s):
No, everything goes in the square hole.
Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.
I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.
This is one of the more eloquent definitions I’ve seen of conservatives. It’s exactly how I see them operate.
The fucked up thing is that a lot of the younger ones I’ve seen recently have that knowledge that their destructive worldviews are messed up, but continue with it out of trauma or some kind of sadism.
I’d guess that many of the older ones have doubled down on that so many times, they can’t remember it ever being a decision or up for internal debate. So, they just keep digging their hateful holes in the sand, ready to plunge their heads in any time they hear something that upsets their delicate, irrational, fantasies.
would just get frustrated and throw things.
Yeah. Most conservatives I know have short tempers and they get extremely carried away when they are in groups. I mean, it doesn’t matter what they are getting mad at, just as long as everyone is getting pissed off at the same time and about someone else or some other ideology. The key point is they believe they are victims of “the system” or “libruls” and not their own bad choices.
It’s very similar to how Putin is constantly crying about how Russia is a victim of NATO aggression, actually.
Just tell a person that their way of life is being attacked and that you have all the solutions.(Simplified Hermann Goering quote. Allegedly.)
Elon Musk trying to be “edgy” and just coming off like the most divorced man on Earth is pretty funny. I’m still not using Vichy Twitter but it is funny watching a grown ass, 52 year-old man try to be an edgelord.
I think vichy twitter is the best nickname ive heard so far
I don’t get it
When Nazi Germany occupied France, it was known as Vichy France.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vichy_France
The joke here being that Elon is a Nazi who took over Twitter? Not sure really.
When France was Vichy France it was controlled and occupied by nazis. Now Twitter is Vichy Twitter.
Yea it’s perfect heheh
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.
Oh my god, he’s trying to make it Reddit.
How about “X is about to start sending everyone to Mastodon”.
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.
So, first you organize posts by like count for signed out users, and now you’re hiding the like count altogether? Now how are you gonna organize posts now?
Elon Musk, the nobody with too much money… for now! [he will still be a nobody though]
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.
When cancel culture was not on full throttle, maybe likes being public made more sense. If only the global like count is the more widely known metric, hiding who liked what is not too significant of a change. It’s not something totally out of the ordinary either, considering most contries’ electoral systems guarantee the individual votes are kept secret.
This guys post history is a hoot
You have just proved right there why current internet users in general don’t have the maturity to have likes publicly visible. The urge to do a witch hunt is just too irresistible.
Witch hunts were sanctioned by the state in many cases. Getting shamed for having shitty opinions is like the barest minimum accountability.
I’m not saying it’s a literal witch hunt. Never heard of metaphors and figures of speech?
And just shouting “your opinions suck!” and running away is hardly productive to a healthy discussion. If you have any counter-arguments to the topic at hand (the individual “likes” being hidden on Twitter/X), feel free to present them.
I think people with ridiculous views should not have an issue with being ridiculed for those views.
It really feels like you’re the immature bunch, trying to hide who you are because you’re too fragile to own up to it if it’s being scrutinized.
I think people with ridiculous views should not have an issue with being ridiculed for those views.
You’re under no obligation to agree with another person point of view. But, if you’re presenting your arguments in good faith, you should be prepared to listen to the person you disagree with in good faith also. If you immediately disregard what others have to say just because you think it’s “too ridiculous to consider”, or throw the ad hominem starter pack: bigot, nazi, far-right, trumper, etc, then you’re just insulating yourself in a bubble in the best case scenario, or showing you don’t have the capability to articulate your argument effectively in the worst case scenario.
It really feels like you’re the immature bunch, trying to hide who you are because you’re too fragile to own up to it if it’s being scrutinized.
It’s not a matter of trying to hide anything for the sake of it. It’s just that some people use the free availability of a user’s previous posts/likes as a shortcut for “whataboutisms”. You may disagree with other posts I made, but what is being discussed here is the reasonableness of individual “likes” being public or not.
I think the crude scrutiny of a persons past posts to be, in many cases, dishonored. The person being scrutinized may have changed their views since then, specially when the post is years-old.
As much as I have no obligation to agree with another person’s views, I also have no obligation to argue about them.
There’s clearly views in this world that can be pretty much dismissed outright, if you disagree you’re free to go to a flat earther forum to debate them out of it.
The only reason Musk wants to hide likes is because he agrees with a bunch of really shitty and messed up positions, and he wants to not be responsible for it.
If you like a post saying “I believe that the jews did 9/11” I think it’s fair for someone to look at it and go “Hey that’s obviously fake, really dumb, and kinda hilarious that you’re this stupid.”
Help! Universities are silencing regressives!
If you disagree, you’re free to offer your counter-arguments.
Regressives should be silenced. Anyone who says “We need to return to a time when X” really just means “I don’t like that my race/gender/nation/sexual preference/religion doesn’t have as much control as it used to”.
They have some greatest hits too, like repeating that higher education tends to come with a left leaning bias. I don’t think they realize why there is a correlation between education and those politics, but it certainly isn’t what they think it is.
No, you see it’s not like education makes you see past your own prejudices and that makes you more liberal. If you are liberal you get awarded an education by the shadowy cabal that controls the education system with DEI measures! This guy only wants a tRuE mERiToCrACy where disenfranchised, downtrodden bigots get a chance to attend university where they are taught about the superiority of their white Aryan race.
/s if it isn’t apparent.
Cancel culture does not exist any more than the ethics of the IDF
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:
Um lemmy exposes it as well, at least for admins
It is only for admins and mods. Tbh I think it should just be allowed for anyone to see.
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.
i’ve seen it here as well, just not very often
i will upvote all your recent posts out of spite
Yes, and… ?
You don’t eliminate bigoted and hateful ideology by allowing it to fester in the dark. It must be exposed for all to see.
These two assholes have succinctly summed up the problem: assholes advocating for a white Christofascist ethnostate are emboldened by the lack of consequences that anonymity provides. Musk doesn’t want freedom of speech, he wants freedom from accountability of speech.
