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

Thorny_Thicket , 10 months 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

wagoner , 10 months 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.

maxenmajs , 10 months ago

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

falkerie71 , 10 months ago

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

Valmond , 10 months ago

How technological.

Orionza , 10 months ago

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

hyperhopper , 10 months ago

Disgusting, everybody has a right to privacy, privacy settings shouldn’t be behind a paywall.

QuadratureSurfer , 10 months ago

Exactly this! Now if only Lemmy would let us hide our likes as well…

cyberpunk007 , 10 months ago

I think that would break the system

Toribor , 10 months ago

Federated content is public by design.

rickdg , 10 months ago

hide yo checks, hide yo likes

KreekyBonez , 10 months ago

they ratio’ing errbody out here

Fandangalo , 10 months ago

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

doublejay1999 , 10 months ago

Next person that write ‘x formerly twitter’ gets swatted

starman2112 , 10 months ago

x formerly twitter

Lmao gotem

skankhunt42 , 10 months ago

Let’s see if this works.

x formerly twitter

theostermanweekend , 10 months ago

Uhg, Twitter. Just die already!

handhookcardoor , 10 months ago

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

RvTV95XBeo , 10 months ago

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

autotldr Bot , 10 months 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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