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Just another step toward making used-to-be-Twitter a safe space for cowardly fascists.
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.
that’s right - the square hole!
psyche visibly crumbling
Elon mad he got ratiod recently or something?
Imagine being a twitter user.
“But muh family and fwiends use it!” or “I have an autistic cousin twice removed so I can’t stop because it’s the only thing he’ll use!”
Any excuse to keep huffing that copium.
This is literally what these walled gardens depend on. Why are mocking people for it?
Just change cities, “but my friends live here.”
Just leave the cult, “but the cult separated me from all my other friends.”
Like, yeah. Cult’s do this on purpose to keep people locked in.
They just don’t want the world to see how little people like them now
Xwitter has become a master class in autocracy, how one guy with power and a fragile ego can bring an entire empire to ruin.
Here in the states with Project 2025 burning bright in the future promised by the Republican Party, we should be watching this closely.
Ruin, yet sooooooo many people are still using it.
Seems to be working out for him. He’s able to control what people are allowed to see and say, which is the main thing he wanted.
Dude is also about to get $56B richer, there is no chance of it failing financially at this point as long as he’s still able to have this much influence with it.
How about “X is about to start sending everyone to Mastodon”.
Am I the only one that thought this was a picture of Kim Jong Un?
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.
Y tho.
Answering honestly: so that shitty people can like shitty things without the consequences. They can broadcast their views without having to answer for them, and down the line it’s easier to manipulate likes so Elon can sell likes or remove likes from anything he pleases, which allows twitter to create “public opinion” that won’t be in line with actual public opinion.
