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That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
by dragonelite 2y ago
That was my speculation also on why he disabled seeing who also liked a post. Im sure it saves a lot in compute and bandwidth.
- gkoberger 2y agoThis wasn't about money either. This was him wanting users to be able to boost reprehensible content without having to put their names on it. He sees this as an antidote to cancel culture; he's allowing people to support things they agree with without society's repercussions.
- XorNot 2y agoWell hang on I mean we're also excluding option 3 here: they just straight up broke the service which provided that feature somewhere between haphazardly decommissioning a data center without planning, and the mass layoffs based on code commit printouts, and now no one knows how to fix it.
- swiftcoder 2y agoOn the flip side of this, they turned on the (at least at first, fictitious) view counts for the opposite reason - despite being costly to calculate accurately, they provide an ego boost.