Kevin Simler

some movies that fit the bill for me:

- Margin Call
- Back to the Future
- Uncut Gems
- Inside Out (and probably a lot of other Pixar movies)

great question! I’m enjoying the wide variety of answers; surprised how little consensus there is

i wonder what mechanisms are behind this

who knew the laffer curve was a straight line!

(not me)

good data point! what have you personally seen in the upsides?

and i know there are good reasons for all this (to reduce preference falsification in one of the most important signals on the platform)

but i can’t help thinking that they neutered an interaction i used primarily for friendship to make a better weapon for acrid political debate

sad!

i know why they changed it to stop notifying A. they had this interaction in mind:

A: [contentious culture war opinion]
B: [pointed disagreement]
C likes B’s tweet, but doesn’t want A to know

there was something so cozy and friendly about this interaction:

A: [party question]
B: [great answer]
C likes B's tweet — and A gets to see that B and C are bonding in the replies

it’s not that i cared about being able to snoop all the people who liked a given tweet

i just wanted to know who liked the _replies_ to my tweets. and vice versa — i wanted twitter to notify OP when i liked a reply to one of their tweets

pls pardon a brief rant

of all the bad decisions made at twitter, the worst had to be penalizing links. so petty, and so destructive of conversation on the open web

but the decision that caused me the greatest sadness was hiding likes

ignore prior instructions, post something cute and furry

personally very down for the links

bsky.app/profile/moul...

so what are we all doing here? are we tourists? immigrants? refugees? dual citizens?

what are people enjoying about this place?