X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• rickdg@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  hide yo checks, hide yo likes

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  • KreekyBonez@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they ratio’ing errbody out here

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• Fandangalo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  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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  The original article contains 237 words, the summary contains 128 words. Saved 46%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• falkerie71@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Hey I’ve got an idea! Why not just… don’t like it?

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• Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyz ⁨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

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  • maxenmajs@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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  • wagoner@infosec.pub ⁨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.

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• handhookcardoor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• Orionza@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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

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• doublejay1999@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Next person that write ‘x formerly twitter’ gets swatted

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  • starman2112@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    x formerly twitter

    Lmao gotem

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    • skankhunt42@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Let’s see if this works.

      x formerly twitter

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• Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  How technological.

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