Long Answer?
Captain Obvious (me) says: a time based rate limit on “unliking” posts is possibly related to AI training and the convenient term “data integrity”
Long answer: Likes, unlikes, and engagement patterns are valuable data points for training AI models. Platforms use likes to measure relevance, content virality, and user behavior. If mass unliking occurs, it disrupts the dataset and can break how the AI models interpret past engagement patterns.
Inconsistency across a timeline can also create disagreement between models etc. (I just decided I need about 3k words to explain why this is toxic, so I’ll write a standalone)
Many platforms would likely double down on a position that they are defending established value for creators— If people can easily mass-remove their likes, it could devalue certain posts and mess with ad-driven engagement strategies which in turn would in theory disrupt monetization patterns for creator accounts… yadda …yadda… 🤦♀️🤷♀️😑
(Platforms want engagement numbers to remain stable for ad analytics and ranking algorithms. Period.)
Rapid, bulk unliking is (conveniently) considered to be an unnatural user behavior Social platforms have decided to flag this as a bot activity, not because they actually believe it to be an attempt to game the system— even they can’t say that with a straight face— but because it serves the interests of monetizing their extraction machines.
By making it harder to undo likes, platforms also believe that they increase the likelihood that users will remain aligned with past engagement patterns. (Think about this carefully if you doubt the disconnect between us and them— they honestly built an industry on the assertion that people’s preferences don’t change because people do not learn. Think about that.
TLDR We hit a trifecta! Post erasure caps are likely about AI training, engagement metrics, AND control over content visibility. Platforms don’t want you freely altering past interactions, because that undermines their predictive models.that’s their story and they are sticking to it?
(This is a clear sign they are solidifying engagement history for AI training and ad revenue optimization)
So— why am I explaining this? Because those engagement patterns also mark neurodivergent users.
If you have been out of touch with the TrumpMusk administration and their attempt to repackage dystopian policy direction as love and care, concentration camps are back!!! being rebranded as health farms™️— proposed mandatory participation health farms that will warehouse and extract value from neurodivergent people (ie pay for themselves)
It is important that everyone understand that “I don’t have a formal diagnosis” does not mean that you have not been flagged and classified.
Our patterns expose us.
To borrow from us history “we must all hang together or surely we will all hang (be monetized) separately.