• cabbage@piefed.social
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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.