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by rchaud 897 days ago
agreed, chronological feeds have a visible signal to users telling them how far they've scrolled. If you're seeing posts from Feb of the past year, you've been scrolling too long.

Ad-based social apps (all of them) replaced that with algorithmic, so you have no real signifier of how long you've spent scrolling.

Tiktok takes this one step further by stripping the date from the videos.