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Elon Musk's X / Twitter is getting rid of repost, like, and reply buttons and counts (mashable.com)

submitted 4 months ago by dvdnet62@feddit.nl to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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[–] INeedMana@lemmy.world 46 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

In general whatever anyone does to anything, current userbase will 90% of the time be against it. But

"Next, we'll remove all the action buttons with their superfluous interaction counts from the main timeline," Musk posted in a subscriber-only post on X in October of last year. "Just view count will show, unless you tap into a post."

So the main thing will be views. Not how many agree, how many object. Views
And probably it will also become the main analytic datapoint

Shit in, shit out

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 28 points 4 months ago (1 children)

So basically "we only want you to see what we decide you should see" since the views is decided by their own proprietary algorithm

[–] normalexit@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Yeah this change is certainly for Musk: "how can I make my tweets look the most popular, without people liking them?"