You’ll soon be able to like controversial and weird posts including those porn posts on X with no fear of being outed when people check your Likes tab on the social media platform.
X is planning to hide likes for all users by default so you won’t need to get an X premium subscription to do so. X is removing the option to view public likes so you won’t be able to keep up with whatever people are liking when you go to their Likes tab.
Celebrities and public figures including X’s owner, Elon Musk have been “caught in 4K” liking controversial content that has pushed them to scandals. “Yeah, we are making likes private. Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behaviour. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be ‘edgy’ in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image,” reads a post by Wang, director of engineering at X.
It is worth noting that you will be able to see who likes your post and the number of likes a post gets. What you will not be able to see will be the Liked tab and who liked someone else’s post.
To hide your likes, people use the bookmark button to keep their likes private so this option by default will be handy. A poster can however decide to out someone’s likes if they wanted to.
The post riled up the platform with people reacting to this post.
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