What would Twitter look like, if Elon flushed all likes, throws x Likes in the sytem and gave it a go? Every Like has to taken from the system and there are positive and negative points just like here or Reddit. If you don’t have Likes anymore you have to dislike something else you liked in the past. It would be entertaining to watch social scoring and fighting for likes in this already fucked up social network.
we don’t need to watch animal farm play out in social media form, thanks.
I think that people would just don’t like/upvote any posts and keep those fake internet points for themselves
And/or they would create a lot of fake accounts to upvote their content.
I imagine I’d probably just not like anything. Not worth the effort of managing.
They would have real tangible value and became an asset subject to speculation and manipulation like crypto.
I would predict even more botting would be used to influence likes/dislikes as limiting them would make them even more influential.
I’d also bet on their being even more useless comments saying expressing people’s like or dislike of something, which might be good for engagement numbers but bad for overall conversation.
