Cooled take: Likes as stochastic retweets was a good idea. It has good ambient intimacy properties.
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So while I think it should be disable-able (and believe its there mostly to pump more engagements) it's actually a really good social discovery mechanism.
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I’m also quietly pro likes-as-retweets tbqh. I’ve been thinking lately that there’s kind of a smooth gradient between ambient intimacy and parasocial intreractions, also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parasocial_interaction …
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