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I disagree. There's already a function for sharing the stuff you see Turning a "like" into a sort of soft retweet was a bad move. Personally it made me much le

I disagree. There's already a function for sharing the stuff you see Turning a "like" into a sort of soft retweet was a bad move. Personally it made me much less likely to interact with stuff I don't want it to surface every action I take to people who follow me Does anyone actually even like the For You tab? All I ever see is "I was wondering why I was seeing so much garbage in my feed, turns out it changed me to For You and I didn't notice"

jauntywundrkind 2y ago
Resharing content is a very high bar. I will upvoted or like >50 things in a day, many days. I tend to reshare stuff ~4 times a week. These are - to me - very obviously different levels of networking & connection; I want to share what I like but I'm not trying to flood the zone & broadcast on main every little thing I enjoy that I run across; my actual account distills down to things that make it across a high threshold barrier. But heck yes people should be able to see yeah what else I'm enjoying if they want to deep dive! What's fucking batshot insane is the lack of a feature is being imposed on everyone. Fine! Make it an option to hide your shameful guilty shit you don't want people to see! De-network if you must, if you are scared. But to take this away from everyone, to deny the option to network & share at this pleasant simple low level? That's insane. I cannot imagine how anyone would entertain such a destructive negative anti-network path as what should be forced on everyone.
- bluefirebrand 2y ago
  > Make it an option to hide your shameful guilty shit you don't want people to see! De-network if you must, if you are scared Why does it have to be about being "scared"? In my mind a like is between me and the person who posted. Why does every little interaction have to be broadcast as far as possible? And I agree the threshold for re-sharing is high. That's why turning likes into a soft re-share is annoying. I didn't want that shard. I don't really care if my likes are hidden. I don't care if people can look at the likes on a post and find my account But I don't want it broadcast either. If I wanted it broadcast I would use the "I want to broadcast this" button > I want to share what I like but I'm not trying to flood the zone But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood. Only you get to feel like you aren't doing it on purpose I found it incredibly annoying when I would see more "someone liked this post" than actual new stuff If my feed moves slower because I'm only seeing new posts and deliberate reshares then that is a good thing imo. I don't need the system to dig up infinite content for me by farming everyone's likes and other interactions
  - jauntywundrkind 2y ago
    > But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood. NACK. They're not. Likes are just likes, they're a lower indicator. Reshares are a much stronger endorsement, are intended for rebroadcast, as it says that on the tin. Trying to conflate the two to argue that we should stop making likes available is misdirection & dishonest construction. NACK. It's obnoxious arguing with people obsessed with themselves. Your welcome to your own opinions & how you want to social, strongly though I disagree with them and find them sad and scared and bad for humanity. But imposing your limited low-information view on others & denying those who would allow this aspect of our socialness, because you claim it doesn't suit you, is egocentric & poor policymaking.

jauntywundrkind 2y ago

Resharing content is a very high bar. I will upvoted or like >50 things in a day, many days. I tend to reshare stuff ~4 times a week. These are - to me - very obviously different levels of networking & connection; I want to share what I like but I'm not trying to flood the zone & broadcast on main every little thing I enjoy that I run across; my actual account distills down to things that make it across a high threshold barrier. But heck yes people should be able to see yeah what else I'm enjoying if they want to deep dive! What's fucking batshot insane is the lack of a feature is being imposed on everyone. Fine! Make it an option to hide your shameful guilty shit you don't want people to see! De-network if you must, if you are scared. But to take this away from everyone, to deny the option to network & share at this pleasant simple low level? That's insane. I cannot imagine how anyone would entertain such a destructive negative anti-network path as what should be forced on everyone.

bluefirebrand 2y ago
> Make it an option to hide your shameful guilty shit you don't want people to see! De-network if you must, if you are scared Why does it have to be about being "scared"? In my mind a like is between me and the person who posted. Why does every little interaction have to be broadcast as far as possible? And I agree the threshold for re-sharing is high. That's why turning likes into a soft re-share is annoying. I didn't want that shard. I don't really care if my likes are hidden. I don't care if people can look at the likes on a post and find my account But I don't want it broadcast either. If I wanted it broadcast I would use the "I want to broadcast this" button > I want to share what I like but I'm not trying to flood the zone But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood. Only you get to feel like you aren't doing it on purpose I found it incredibly annoying when I would see more "someone liked this post" than actual new stuff If my feed moves slower because I'm only seeing new posts and deliberate reshares then that is a good thing imo. I don't need the system to dig up infinite content for me by farming everyone's likes and other interactions
- jauntywundrkind 2y ago
  > But that's what it is doing by turning your likes into a reshare. Every like you make becomes part of the flood. NACK. They're not. Likes are just likes, they're a lower indicator. Reshares are a much stronger endorsement, are intended for rebroadcast, as it says that on the tin. Trying to conflate the two to argue that we should stop making likes available is misdirection & dishonest construction. NACK. It's obnoxious arguing with people obsessed with themselves. Your welcome to your own opinions & how you want to social, strongly though I disagree with them and find them sad and scared and bad for humanity. But imposing your limited low-information view on others & denying those who would allow this aspect of our socialness, because you claim it doesn't suit you, is egocentric & poor policymaking.