Elon Musk's X / Twitter is getting rid of repost, like, and reply buttons and counts

dvdnet62@feddit.nl to Technology@lemmy.ml – 72 points –
Coming redesign of Elon Musk's X will get rid of... a lot
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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

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

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