• INeedMana@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    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 datapoint

    Shit in, shit out

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      So basically “we only want you to see what we decide you should see” since the views is decided by their own proprietary algorithm

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        Yeah this change is certainly for Musk: “how can I make my tweets look the most popular, without people liking them?”