Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time

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• polyfire@waveform.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.

    That would be amazing but also not gonna happen

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    • micka190@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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).

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    • polyfire@waveform.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It’s funny how individually we can do the right thing but together is a whole other beast.

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• throwing_handles@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Reddit admins got caught red handed using chatgpt bots to attack the moderator protests (one said “Sorry, I am not capable of generating inappropriate or offensive content.”), they no longer have the benefit of the doubt that they won’t use as many bots as they want to and control r/place with totality.

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• Furbag@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Sadly, nothing bad will happen to reddit no matter how many people try to protest with pixel art on /r/place. Last year, admins unabashedly removed entire swathes of canvas that they deemed inappropriate, sometimes catching legitimate art in the crossfire. Not to mention the admin who got caught red handed placing multiple pixels off of the timer, with video evidence.

  So no, a giant fuck /u/spez will never be allowed to exist long enough to be anywhere close to complete. They’ll do the same thing to any API related banner or whatever you might think of.

  The best thing you can do is not engage. They are doing this again so soon after the last one because they desperately need clicks and traffic to boost their site metrics for the upcoming IPO.

  Besides, it’s just going to be a canvas covered 75% in flags maintained by bots anyway because reddit sucks at programming in safeguards to prevent abuse, so your 1 pixel of contribution won’t mean squat.

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  • Hypersapien@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I don’t know. The users are way smarter than the admins. I’m sure people can think of a way to do it that the mods won’t notice until it’s too late.

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• Rooty@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.

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  • JargonWagon@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Right? Keep this shit to c/reddit.

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  • NuPNuA@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It does feel like a lot of people here are more angry about their ex than enjoying their new freedom doesn’t it?

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    • samsy@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Just complaining to the new relationship.

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  • nolannice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s the same thing with Elon/Twitter posts on Mastodon, it’s like half the content on there!

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• phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”

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  • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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.

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    • phoneymouse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      “Use Lemmy” works for me

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    • rDrDr@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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”.

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    • mrmanager@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • AlEi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    And drive traffic to reddit? Nah

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  • Patariki@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lemmy show you the way.

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  • astropenguin5@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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!

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    • Comment105@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The actual pixel art, I believe, should read

      Fuck Reddit Join [lemmy link]

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• AndreTelevise@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

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  • linearchaos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guarantee you they’ve got a flock of admins sitting there with the tool to replace any pixels they want.

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    • at_an_angle@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Didn’t that happen last time?

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• samsy@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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  • HurlingDurling@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    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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    • bcron@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I think that’s their plan - everyone will be on reddit bashing F5 and trying to build protest banners and stuff, and admins will be sitting there writing over everything. They’ll get huge traffic and it won’t be a dumpster fire

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    • GoodEye8@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      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.

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  • ojmcelderry@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbaseb to literally create the image.

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    • Agent641@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Can we make a lemmy logo on it?

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  • DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Yes but what sorts of images are going to coalesce, I wonder.

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• bappity@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I KNEW IT LOL
  I thought that they’d try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the site

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• rustyfish@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• devious@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!

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  • PixelProf@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My cynical guess is that’s what they’re hoping the community will do (“like lemmings, I tell you!” - spez) to drive higher traffic numbers before some announcement or meeting.

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• ForeverAGnome@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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.

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• TechieJosh@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  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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• Tibert@compuverse.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.

  And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.

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  • Usernameblankface@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Someone who knows how needs to save a copy of whatever gets posted often.

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• jadrien1@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?

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  • Ryumast3r@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.

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  • whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s their “use in case of emergency” tool.

    It was popular so they are bringing it out as a distraction.

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• mojo@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Admins will watching it and nuking giant spots every few minutes like they did last time, when they didn’t consider it advertiser or IPO friendly enough.

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• Action_Bastid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.

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• Jar2Eau@lemmy.fmhy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh shit! It’s not a joke ??? I saw that early today and imagined how stupid it would be to launch another r/place right now. Grabs some popcorn people, it’s going to be interesting to watch.

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• G59@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Negative engagement is still engagement… is what spez would say.

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• CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Fixing the Titanic with chewing gum…

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  • NullSkull@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    … and they forgot to chew it first!

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• AlaskaMan@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need a team to collaborate and make a large ad for Lemmy.

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• net00@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Wish I still had a reddit account to help write fuck u/spez

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• digdilem@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That’s a whole lot of “fuck spez”. Well done, strangers.

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• AndrewZabar@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Given the dimensions are huge, the opportunity for a gigantic manipulated photorealistic image is there. How about a photo of Spez sucking an entire bag of dicks.

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• Seytoux@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  That suuuurely won’t blow up in spez’s stupid face /s

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• zav@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Oh this is gonna be fun

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• ilovecarrotjuice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I just don’t have enough pop corn for this shitshow

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• MildlyIncorrect@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is going to be fun

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• clevadio@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  And I’ll gladly scroll past from here what someone else is willing to post when they do.

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