 Twitter just made bookmarks public. Which makes me wonder: what's the point of likes -- especially now that both likes and bookmarks are public? Thankfully, Mastodon bookmarks are *still* private. https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/1636440696176427032 10 comments
 @atomicpoet The number of bookmarks for a given tweet is displayed, but AFAICT the accounts that have bookmarked it are not. So still private in that sense, unless I'm missing something.  @atomicpoet Not finding this but wondering if it also shows _who_ bookmarked a tweet?  @atomicpoet It's a full circle to favourites. Favourites were originally social bookmarks (think del.icio.us). You save something for later, but the author gets notified. @Gargron @atomicpoet we should not underestimate this "social" function as the favorite thingy has direct access to the endorphine center cc/ @nitot So whatever birdsite does, the distinction between favorites and bookmarks is essential, because favorites are also a messenger. @atomicpoet what we actually need are fewer metrics in our life, not more. @atomicpoet I asked the same thing about retweets when Twitter started putting both retweets and likes in my home feed. The whole points of likes to begin with was to be able to favorite something without spamming it to all of your followers, if you actually wanted to share something with your followers you retweeted it. Likes are for the poster, retweets for your followers, and bookmarks for you. This is just stupid and should be private. |
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@atomicpoet wtf how does that make any sense?