I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this whole “plan” was concocted and deployed by the entire leadership team, with Reran giving the final approval. Linus is still the face of the company, so it’s no surprise he is the one telling us about this plan.

Remember when they hid NSFW content from r/all and they said they would add a new filter that did contain the content?

Now you can’t even select r/all from the drop down menu on their app. You have to open the sidebar, scroll all the way to the bottom, then select it. No way of setting it as the default. Classic algorithm push for advertisers.