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In a surprising move last week, Musk announced that the platform would start allowing users to hide likes, shares, and reposts — a suspicious decision that feels like a bid to conceal the platform's waning energy.
"You can now hide engagement buttons and numbers below each post and interact with posts through custom swipe gestures!" X app developer May LyWhy Musk would suddenly care about a "cleaner" user interface is a bit of a mystery. Ever since taking over the social media platform in 2022, the company has littered the network with a confusing array of colored checkmarks, unnecessary info, and a barrage of disruptive ads.
But it doesn't take much reading between the lines to wonder if X is paying attention to the astronomic rise of Twitter alternatives BlueSky and Threads. Over the past week alone, BlueSky's daily active users haveAs of earlier this month, Threads had a whopping 275 monthly active users. But thanks to its breakneck momentum, Bluesky iseven child sexual abuse material
have run rampant on X ever since Musk took over, turning the platform into a hellhole of disinformation and exploitation.that X was actively throttling the visibility of posts that include external links, a sign that the platform could be looking for ways to shut out outside news.
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