Comment on Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄

• kautau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  At one point it was gamification to tie the reward center of your brain into continuing to train using the app. Now it seems that it’s half that or half en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_pattern to get you to pay to keep that reward system going.

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• CrowAirbrush@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To make you addicted so you keep coming back

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• percent@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Personally, my interest in language learning comes and goes. Doing the minimum to maintain a streak prevents me from forgetting too much before my interest returns.

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• cooopsspace@infosec.pub ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Gamification including social aspects if you’re a regular app user.

  Abusive ex if you aren’t a regular user.

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  • Duamerthrax@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I fucking hate the gamification they did to Khan Academy. Just give me the knowledge map back.

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• voodooattack@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sense of achievement mainly

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