Are we starting to see tech companies worried about how stable their userbase is instead of how much they can grow and get attention from people?<p>In a time of growth every bit of extra activity is great. If you run hot and burn out someone, but attract ten users in the process, great!<p>But if growth is slow and you are shifting gears to keeping users around, having a time based feed is more sustainable?<p>I'm just guessing here, but I wonder why Facebook is making this after so many years of people asking for it. They just backtracked on Facebook accounts for Oculus as well.
I still have FB and IG accounts, but I don't use them much anymore. The non-chronological feed on both sites eventually required either lots of effort (do all of posts, videos, stories, replies, likes, etc. all the time) for organic visibility or pay for visibility. I get why that increased revenue (spend money or spend time), but as a casual user I don't care enough to do either at the scale required, so eventually I got disinterested.