Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.
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So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?
Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn’t want.
I’m hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We’ll see
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…
We shall eagerly await your report. Lol
If we’re patient, we can see it play out a dozen times in YouTube videos without giving Reddit any traffic.
Edit: I am not patient.
Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏
That would require logging into Reddit. I have a feeling this is to boost clicks for a really poor months performance so they can say “look 3rd party apps being dead is fine!”
Ding ding ding
I mean, its pretty transparent attempt by spez to boost.interactions with the site, but that won’t stop people from doing exactly what spez wants them to do.
True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.
Lol. It wouldn’t make a dent.
Truth is the people shouting “fuck Spez” is a small minority.
Everyone knows about Reddit. Not very many are that invested to care.
Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.
Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.
this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.
That suuuurely won’t blow up in spez’s stupid face /s
Negative engagement is still engagement… is what spez would say.
Oops! All swastikas!
It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”
then spez will ban every account that contributed to it
Nah it will be covered up by the admin brigade and cause more Trubble for reddit.
By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in
I’ve been sending the other admins messages (not directly obviously) like “he can’t fire all of you”. 😈
Devious!
Fixing the Titanic with chewing gum…
… and they forgot to chew it first!
It is impressive the lengths that Reddit will reach to ignore their protesting users. They make one tone-deaf decision after another. r/Place should be quite entertaining.
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Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”
Why Lemmy world specifically? I’d just go for Lemmy in general and then it’s a shorter message and doesn’t lead to Lemmy world becoming even more bloated/slow.
I think people on Lemmy.world wants every Lemmy user to be on their instance. I have never seen any other instance post so much messages about how people should that instance instead of joining the network.
Centralized will lead to a lot of issues for Lemmy but I guess people need to learn that.
Weird behaviour. Decentralisation shouldn’t mean tribalism.
Joining lemmy.world is a very straightforward replacement for reddit. “Join Lemmy.World” is a much more effective message than “do some research about various instances, register with one that federates with other instances you find interesting, and subscribe to specific communities by searching for them”.
“Use Lemmy” works for me
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And drive traffic to reddit? Nah
I just created a community for this! Head over to !place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world of you want to help out with construction when the time comes!
The actual pixel art, I believe, should read
Fuck Reddit
Join Lemmy
[lemmy link]
Lemmy show you the way.
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Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won’t participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I’m happy to be here with y’all.
Its a trap. The best way to fight reddit is to not even engage. Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.
Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.
That would be amazing but also not gonna happen
Edit: instead maybe the mods at r/pics can convince everyone to only place white pixels on the canvas
Especially since it was revealed Reddit employees had access to /r/places without a timer. They’d just fill it with random shit if it was dead (which it won’t be, because streamers will get people to flock there regardless).
It’s funny how individually we can do the right thing but together is a whole other beast.
One massive, throbbing, pixelated John Oliver.
I just don’t have enough pop corn for this shitshow
Wish I still had a reddit account to help write fuck u/spez
This isn’t the worst time, it’s the best time.
If you think like a capitalist, for their IPO it’s a catcher to show how strong and big the community is. Investors would love this.
Because the Reddit hive mind will most likely use it as a form of protest against spez. I also agree that it’s the best time, going to go get me my popcorn and enjoy the art
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There’s a great Lenin quote about it: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” If your goal is profit you will do anything for it, including letting the customers publicly shame you or your company.
That said, I imagine Spez being petty enough interfere with the protest.
Yes but what sorts of images are going to coalesce, I wonder.
What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.
Can we make a lemmy logo on it?
we have to do this
Still won’t go back. Am happy here.
But just imagine, only a handful of people with bots on their hands. This could end up in a fucking shitshow deluxe.
