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Re:Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beau... by PeterBarrett on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:02AM (#20634742)
Instagram is currently hiding likes in Ireland as part of a test, only the person who uploads the photo sees how many people like it. It will be interesting to see if they roll it out everywhere or decide against it.
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Re:Selfie-seeking Instagrammers are ruining the world’s beau... by mc32 on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @10:16AM (#20634865)
That’s interesting and thanks for pointing that out.

Personally I think the converse would be more effective hide the score from the uploader. People upload to gauge their popularity (via image proxy).

Basically I don’t think the issue is, hmmm, what pic got the most likes, do I can get likes too. It’s let me see how many likes I can get on my pic. Obviously people will copycat to go for reproducibility of likes, but are mostly interested in the likes.

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