Elon Musk Likely To Remove Likes Tab From Your X Feed This Week: Know More

Elon Musk-owned X is likely to remove the likes from your post and the Likes tab from your profile sometime this week. Musk hasn’t officially shared this timeline but recent developments hint at an imminent change for X users this week. The news about X hiding your likes was mentioned by The Verge in its recent article which was quote-posted by Musk saying, “Important to allow people to like posts without getting attacked for doing so!”

Likes have been a big part of Twitter and now X’s identity which allows people to share their opinions or agree with a view without commenting on it. Likes have also created a sense of animosity among the crowd on the platform, which seems to be the reason why Musk is happy to start hiding your likes from the posts.

The rumours of the like tab going away came recently through one of the engineers at X . So, why is X going to remove the feature and also the Likes tab from our profile? “Public likes are incentivizing the wrong behavior. For example, many people feel discouraged from liking content that might be ‘edgy’ in fear of retaliation from trolls, or to protect their public image,” as said by Haofei Wang, X engineer on the platform.

Some people have felt that likes can be a way of bookmarking a post for future reading.

In fact, one of the biggest detractors of likes has been former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, who was trying to see the point of this change and how it differs from a bookmark. To which, Wang said, “Like is visible between you and the author, the author will be notified, but not anyone else. Bookmark is only visible to you.”

So, the next time you decide to like a post on X, chances are the world will not be able to see it to help you avoid becoming part of a controversial view which invites unwanted attacks and trolling.