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X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch::Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.

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[-] RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works 50 points 1 year ago

Somewhere out there, Ted Cruz is frantically entering his credit card number.

[-] rickdg@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago

hide yo checks, hide yo likes

[-] KreekyBonez@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

they ratio'ing errbody out here

[-] hyperhopper@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago

Disgusting, everybody has a right to privacy, privacy settings shouldn't be behind a paywall.

[-] QuadratureSurfer@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Exactly this! Now if only Lemmy would let us hide our likes as well...

[-] Toribor@corndog.social 7 points 1 year ago

Federated content is public by design.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago

I think that would break the system

[-] Fandangalo@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Ah yes. Paying for privacy on a walled garden website. Genius business moves.

[-] autotldr 8 points 1 year ago

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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[-] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago

Hey I've got an idea! Why not just... don't like it?

[-] handhookcardoor@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Good change, would’ve been better on a nicer website, like Twitter pre-2016.

[-] Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz 7 points 1 year ago

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

[-] maxenmajs@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Right. If I wanted to save something I would copy the url.

[-] wagoner@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] theostermanweekend@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Uhg, Twitter. Just die already!

[-] Orionza@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

This is becoming like the paid to win games. Whales take all.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 4 points 1 year ago

How technological.

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