Warpcast

i remember having the public/private likes convo with @dwr.eth when warpcast was rolling out the “likes” tab on the profile.

he said it was a discovery tool. 
i said it was a cancellation tool.
we all know how every debate with @dwr.eth ends.

interesting X will now move them private. 

thoughts?

This is a bad idea. If Twitter was redesigned in 2016 to avoid people getting cancelled (let’s say implemented the balaji’s pseudonymous ideas), I doubt that cancellation would be as weak as it’s today. The scapegoating needs to happen so the mechanism gets revealed.

I think it’s a useful experiment. Users might not “like” things due to fear of public backlash. 

More precise likes makes for higher fidelity user feedback & data, which improves the feed algo