Sounds like Elon is upset about getting called out for liking Nazi content.
Did not know. I assumed it was to make it hard to scrape "weights" and put more blocks in front of AI dataset scraping
Soon they'll get rid of likes all together because "People don't like edgy comments, which makes it appear like people hate edgy comments, so to encourage edgy comments we are removing usernames, likes, and retweets."
Basically just a chan board with a better DM system.
This isn't remotely the same situation, our votes are already anonymous.
Downvotes were removed to force disagreement to be expressed socially, not to make it so fascists could "like without worrying who might see it."
Just so you know, I used to be an Admin/Overmod of this website. I was part of the initial vanguard that fought the bots. Downvotes were actually ruining the site. You couldn't use hot or most upvoted to organize because of wrecker bots downvoting all the good stuff while up voting terrible things.
Now if you really dislike something instead of passively downvoting things now you have to communicate. This is bad for wreckers, CHUDs and Fascist cause it means the community can clean out the scum we don't want here, especially if they are the usual kind who aren't here to listen.
Gotta educate these youngsters on the history of this site lol.
Gotta remove any ambiguity to make it clear it's just a Nazi pipeline
And now you can't trace where likes came from, and "power" users, like Elon, could give any number of likes they want without anyone knowing.
tbh this should have always been a feature imo, but its so funny that they're only adding it now to stop nazis from accidentally outing themselves to the public
This was a "feature" they added with the premium subscription, seems like an odd move to give it to the plebs
I think it's to protect people like Anat Schwartz who liked a genocidal post. Don't remember if it was on Twitter though.
Right, people saw what she was liking before she went fully mask off. She was exposed and nothing happened because canceling isn't real. So this won't really have any effect.
many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be 'edgy'
The "edgy" content:
So this will stop fascists who like fascists shit from facing the slightest repercussion to their public image, but I assume the back end will still be open for scraping by feds who want to compile lists of dissidents.
Only left wing dissidents. The privacy of the proud boys is sacrosanct.
- proud boys are not dissidents
- cops never cared about them, in fact they like them
also makes it super easy to use bots to promote posts via likes because nobody can look at where the likes come from
The integrity of the game falls apart when you can't see the votes. People need to be able to verify that votes are real or sus or else it stops feeling fair.
The entire point of gameification is that people don't feel the game is rigged. Democratisation of posting needs to be verifiable to end users or else they'll just slowly gravitate to platforms they feel like they trust more.
It's literally why we ditched the Down vote here on Hexbear. Because bots were down voting everything regardless of content and only up voting the things the bot was programmed to upvote. As such it became impossible to know what real users thought about stuff. By making it upvote only, we thoroughly decreased the amount of rigging outsiders can do to our Hexbear system™.
Also some patsocs (maybe one?) Had some bots that were consistently down voting any trans post
followees like good stuff?