• slaacaa@lemmy.worldOP
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    15 hours ago

    “The r/all experiment has concluded and the decision was made to remove r/all. I’m so sorry. =/ Reddit is leaning toward simplifying your experience to make it more personalized and relevant to your subscriptions and interests. I know some of you have some pretty strong feelings about this and I totally get that! Feel free to leave comments on this post. I will continue to pass along constructive feedback to that team.”

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      14 hours ago

      Haha.

      Don’t worry folks, it was not a basic feature since day one, it was an experiment!

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        14 hours ago

        The way it’s worded, it does sound like /r/all is the experiment they’re referring to.

        But I think it makes more sense if they’re referring to an experiment involving /r/all. I remember reading months ago that they wanted to remove it, maybe they are referring to an A/B testing experiment (remove it for some people and not for others) there.

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          14 hours ago

          Yeah, that makes sense. They had an experiment to see if they could increase ad revenue by removing the all-feed, and now it’s concluded and it turns out that yes indeed, enshittification rolls on.

          I cannot imagine staying on a service that is openly admitting running experiments on its users to make them as addicted as possible. I guess it’s a boiling frog kind of deal.

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          13 hours ago

          No, it is clarified within the thread that /r/all will stop working “after the rollout is complete”

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            12 hours ago

            You’re replying to the wrong comment there. This isn’t about whether they’ll remove it or not.