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 datapointShit in, shit out
So basically “we only want you to see what we decide you should see” since the views is decided by their own proprietary algorithm
Yeah this change is certainly for Musk: “how can I make my tweets look the most popular, without people liking them?”
He should remove the “post” button while he’s at it.
I’m pretty sure he’s using Twitter as some sort of home project science experiment.
The amount of sheer hate and vitriol I was getting ramped up hugely in recent months - the algorithm is definitely promoting hate, despite my almost never replying/posting. Lots and lots of far right political content also, it really didn’t feel random.
I bailed a couple of weeks ago.
Obviously this would only apply to the app, right?
A lot of us would never install an app for the cancer social media apps
To shreds, you say?