>>76876084>It's a good change overallNo it's fucking not. It's one of the things that made twitter unique. Now it's going to be functionally no different than tumblr.
But most of all, when they implement this change, it's going to be next to impossible to find smaller accounts including artists, because niche stuff is often liked and seldom retweeted. This is because
1) people usually like things way more than they they retweet them
2) people who like risque stuff might not want their feed covered in weird shit, but they'll still like it.
3) People's feeds tend to be covered in their own bullshit thoughts, retweets of their friends' bullshit thoughts, and other random bullshit nonsense like food pics and gavha results. But their likes are usually mostly tweets that contain media, so it filters out unnecessary shit I don't care about.
Before, when I found a small artist that I liked, I could go to his likes tab and see the tweets he's liked and usually I'd find a couple more interesting artists that way. Or if one particular artwork was good, I could view the engagements, look at the likes tab, and it would show non-private accounts that liked the work too. I could then go to their account's likes tab and find a bunch of similar works.
But now this will be literally impossible and so it will completely kill my interest in going there.
Most people do not give a shit that their likes are public. If you're afraid of other people seeing your likes, make a second account.
There was no reason to do this. Pro members already have the option to hide their likes. Just role that out to everyone as optional. It's a fucking stupid decision which was made with faulty reasoning and it doing it will destroy the site for anyone that isn't interested in culture wars and politics.
And you're a fucking idiot too.
