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[droqen]

w***** recently started a small devlog in paradise for P******* (****) and i had a thought: i want to respond to this, but i don't have anything to say yet. i don't know if speaking up will be meaningful. i guess this is where 'likes' came from. but... you know what? i hate likes! they're the worst. likes can die.

likes make lurking into something social-visible-acceptable, but likes also suck.

that is, if someone is reading and lurking, likes turn that into something visible; they make it easy for a lurker to turn into an 'active social participant'. but likes are hollow. they're more visible than lurking, but they just draw attention to the fact that no meaningful social interaction is occurring. a like is just a visible view. a like just draws attention to that emptiness.