Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.

X, formerly Twitter, is now letting paid users hide their likes | TechCrunch::Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is now rolling out a feature for paid users to let them hide their likes.

  • hyperhopper@lemmy.mlEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

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

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    91·
    1 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:

    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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  • Thorny_Thicket@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    8·
    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

    • wagoner@infosec.pubEnglish
      1·
      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.