@phire @atomicpoet there are so many examples of people giving earnest feedback that they lie behaviour doesn’t match. The one so many founders know is people deluging you with “I would pay for that” regarding a pay monthly product in idea stage only to not pay for that when it’s launched. Similarly, people who lamented that they would pay for a social media platform that didn’t sell ads.. just don’t (tumblr plus, mastodon) for the most part.
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@phire @atomicpoet that’s not to say that the majority of FB design wasn’t motivated by profit rather than what people actually used. But their internal testing showed most people didn’t use their post to select audience feature. (Now retired)
@phire @atomicpoet in the end, it’s easy to put to rest by a/b testing. It’s either proved or disproved that something works.