Yes but I think that’s an app-level decision. Ideally most apps wouldn’t even have likes.
Yes, I think there should be the optionality to hide them at the app layer (just the # tho)
Post popularity checking will be missed, either stakes or likes must be visible to build Phaver
i dont understand, we can see other people like on Hey ? but where
No. Hiding likes feels seems like a scheme that’s ready and waiting to be abused by bots.
Huge no! For me, hiding likes is the part of the Instagram/Facebook snowflake corporate culture. There's nothing wrong with likes. It can be very beneficial for smaller users if they create an exceptionally popular post, and people see it and say "wow, this has a lot of likes, it must be an interesting post, I'll check out this guy".
I see no need for that tbh. If i like something, then anyone can know about that. If i feel uncomfortable with that, i just can choose to not like that post anyway.