• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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        Real Empty Internet Theory hours, given how much of that site is flooded with bots.

        Like, even when there is an active community, its punctuated with so many ads and spam account posts that real interactions are the exception rather than the rule.

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      The people that they are likely changing this policy for are high enough up in the social hierarchy that they can’t be arsed to have more than one account, that’s too much work for them and those same people are also likely the ones that are giving them money which means that he has a direct incentive to do this

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    My conspiracy theory on this is that Twitter Blue isn’t doing well so they’re doubling down on ad revenue.

    Public likes disincentvise interactions, which is one metric that could be used to measure engagement, so hiding likes, along side their recent policy changes about NSFW stuff, is a way to encourage more engagement towards attention grabbing content that users were otherwise not inclined to interact with.

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      On the flip side of that coin, being able to see what other people like Embraces interaction because you can look at a like list see who else liked that post and then by doing so you’re interacting with that post as well, where with the new system there’s no longer an incentive to interact with a post unless you find it entertaining. Which I fully agree with I just think it’s going to lower their overall engagement metrics

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        Basically it’s allowed but they must properly mark it as NSFW, so it can be filtered out for minors and people who are actively trying to avoid it. More or less they’re making the sharing of adult material a more legitimate thing for twitter, which is kinda hard to tell because twitter has always been filled with porn but I guess it’s just more official.

        Wherever or not people will actually mark their content as NSFW or if Twitter will enforce it is in the air. I’ve seen Twitter content sensitivity setting used more for video game spoilers than it’s actual intended use.

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    So what’s the point of liking anymore? Like at some point it’s gonna be a single player platform requiring online data gathering

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      I am assuming that likes will be visible on a tweet but you can’t look through a specific user’s likes unless they allow it? Seems like a decent change tbh

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      Back in the day there were only re-tweets and bookmarks. Then Facebook likes became popular and Twitter changed bookmarks which could be private or public into fully public likes. So annoying. Likes should have never existed on Twitter.

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    At this point, if you’re still posting on Twitter then you’re suspect. That site’s subtag might as well be “PUSSY IN BIO”, we all know why you’re there.

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      Someone set a timer, how long will it be before they reverse that change. VISA has been very open about not wanting to be involved with anything that is NSFW, and about time Visa reaches out and says yo we’re pulling the plug on your usage of our services it’s going to reverse