Removing public likes has:

1) Made me realize I'm a snoop. I found lots of interesting stuff in the likes tab of people I know. Great way to quickly find "more like this" when you discover someone new. Now I bounce and don't engage.

2) Immediately made me more tribalistic. I am much more likely to smash like on pumps and dunks from "my team" since only the author sees my embarrassing behavior.

Neither seems good!

I'm eth newbie..just learning
(working on @farcaster)

terminally.online

Very much with you on point 1. They could made *better* use of likes, not zero. 

For reasons that say more about me than anything, I still don’t believe that likes are public and haven’t liked much more than I would have previously. I’m very aware of the tension, though. I would really like it to not matter.