All this hate towards u/spez only gives reddit engagement. The only way to real success is by making users move to Lemmy.
You’ll only be giving Reddit more traffic without achieving anything else.
I think a lot of people here are apathetic towards anything Reddit related ultimately and you’d need a lot of engagement with Reddit for it to happen. Or bots, which is what half of the big participants in the last one used anyway.
I wouldn’t mind someone botting a little Lemmy advertisment though.
Reddit engagement is good for reddit and bad for us. Regardless of the content
Plus they have some code that allows them to interfere with the picture. The part that drawn spez under a guillotine received a checkerboard and also constantly had random pixels showing up.
Anyone who thinks they are protesting by it are fooling themselves.
Also if somebody was truly worrying reddit they likely removed their account. Asking to contributing is asking to create account back on the site we wanted to leave.
I’d like this place to survive, but, man, it has big Mad Men “I feel sorry for you/I don’t think about you at all” vibes.
I had a buddy send me a link to a Reddit post the other day. Other than the couple of technical questions I’ve sourced there through Google, I haven’t given that place a single click. I’m sure there are great things still there, but Reddit is almost completely out of my life. Lemmy has some growing to do still, but I’m here for the ride.
That’s just the people who miss reddit and want to recreate it.
Plenty of us are moving on and want to do things differently here though.
I agree with you in principle, but speaking from strictly a strategic perspective, /r/place presents a vulnerability that can be exploited without contributing what Reddit really needs to regain its status - content.
In the context of a social media war, this means we can use the space to peel off users who wouldn’t have been introduced to the Fediverse otherwise, with no risk of harming ourselves or providing Reddit more than a temporary moment of attention. There’s been a concerted effort to remove links to Fediverse resources in many subs, and for a great deal of redditors, they’re in the dark about what the Fediverse represents and how much better it is than Reddit.
Plus it’s just cool to fuck with Spez, and the Fediverse is so cool in general that I’d love to see what the effect would be if we united against a common enemy.
Place gives Reddit exactly what it needs most - user engagement. By going, you’re feeding Reddit stats they can show prospective investors and advertisers on unique users, time on site, and clicks even after the protests.
Reddit was very crafty in relaunching Place right now. They can show a material post-API uptick exactly as Spez promised.
You really think 1000 (being very very generous here) people from lemmy going to r/Place to advertise is going to give a boost to Reddit’s user engagement? On the other hand 1000 people coming from Reddit to lemmy will be like a 1% boost to Lemmy.
No, I’m not saying Lemmy users checking in represent any material change to Reddit numbers. I’m saying Place gets Reddit a short term boost to demonstrate the site still has pull. And that is what Reddit cares about far more than good content - eyeballs to sell ads to, and comments to sell to LLM companies.
the fact that it would require us to spend time on reddit every 5 min and the fact thatthe admins would wipe it if it showed any real problems.
I think we should just ignore Reddit, we don’t need it enjoy our content here on Lemmy/Kbin
I think some people want Lemmy to become as big as Reddit. I don’t care if it does, I just want it to be big enough to have a good stream of content.
In terms of my time, the fediverse already has enough content for me, everything else is just the cherry on top.
I’d like us to grow organically. I don’t think we need to go and evangelize over at reddit.
I’d still like some more diversity of content though.
I want federated social media to kill off corporate social media because the latter is doing substantive damage to our society by giving Spez, Musk and Zuckerberg too much power over political discourse.
I’m in if someone organizes where to put the pixel art. It would be wise to wait for the upcoming size update. On the engagement part, I honestly would be (even more) disappointed in humanity if the “bad publicity is publicity” tactic will work out well to convince investors.
Actually it looks like it works.
They don’t care about the “fuck spez” text, they did care about spez under a guillotine and were using some code to destroy it.
So what’s the point?
Because I’ve got better shit to do with my time.
Man, that shit required you to sit in front of your computer all day. It’s abysmal that you can place one tile every 5 minutes is it? I placed one and noped the fuck out
because we don’t still text our exes…
@sebi It’s trying to get people to keep up with it, it would be really hard to keep our smaller community of Fediverse users in control of what we are writing on Reddit as most of the current remaining Reddit users seem to rather not care or feel it’s to complex.
The fact that it is work that I don’t want to do… Pretty much
Not giving a shit
It’s really not worth the engagement. The approach we’ve taken is to maintain a place on /r/android and /r/xiaomi to direct folks to !android@lemdro.id and !xiaomi@lemdro.id. It helps boost Fediverse adoption without driving extra traffic to Reddit.
What’s stopping us? Going back to Reddit is what’s stopping us.
Having to go on Reddit? Duh?
