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.
That doesn’t seem like a prudent idea.
“Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we’ve made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!”
Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.
You don’t need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.
Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.
No such thing as bad publicity and for reddit’s case no such thing as bad user engagement. He could right in that area. As much as reddit users complain as long as they keep engaged with the platform instead of doing it somewhere else and keep visiting it frequently to vent their frustrations it’s a win. Engagement is engagement.
You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.
I couldn’t have said it better
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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.
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.
Oops! All swastikas!
It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”
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!
then spez will ban every account that contributed to it
I was looking forward to the next version of r/place in a couple years. Now it’s just utterly pathetic pandering to attempt to bring disaffected users back to the site
Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”
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!
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.
“Use Lemmy” works for me
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The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?
I guarantee you they’ve got a flock of admins sitting there with the tool to replace any pixels they want.
Didn’t that happen last time?
Yep, and someone got video proving it was one mod placing pixels without delay.
The disappearance of the great 2B butt was the downfall of r/place. RIP
This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.
Right? Keep this shit to c/reddit.
It’s the same thing with Elon/Twitter posts on Mastodon, it’s like half the content on there!
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.
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 siteMaybe we should write lemmy somewhere…
But that would require us to use Reddit, which I think may be their plan all along.
Don’t be surprised when the Lemmy pixels are suddenly overwritten by spez.
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.
I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!
My cynical guess is that’s what they’re hoping the community will do (“like lemmings, I tell you!” - spez, probably) to drive higher traffic numbers before some announcement or meeting.
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.
So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?
Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time
