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FinalBoy1975 ,

This is not a news item related to technology. It’s about Reddit, which is not a technology. Reddit is a web site, not a technology or pioneer in the tech industry. Reddit is a social media web site. This could be related to technology, but Reddit’s use of technology is not discussed in the article. It’s about an online event that Reddit hosts and how maybe users won’t participate in it. Not exactly a tech thing. More about how people like or don’t like a thing. Technology news is more about like, you know, technology. Hardware and software and how it works. This is not a news item about technology. It isn’t even about how people relate to technology. It’s about a web site, which technology has made possible since decades ago.

digdilem ,

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

tram1 ,

Maybe we should write lemmy somewhere…

Zozano ,

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.

Morphit ,
@Morphit@feddit.uk avatar

https://feddit.uk/pictrs/image/aa6543de-d775-40d8-99fe-f35e0f7aa0de.png

For real though, fuck Spez.

tappyturtle ,

They know what they’re doing…

Rolando ,

Is there a way to see what’s happening to r/place without actually going to reddit? (like a stream or something.) I don’t want to give them the traffic.

svahnen ,

Great though!

xthexder ,
@xthexder@l.sw0.com avatar

The more recent Verge article includes a gallery of some progress images: www.theverge.com/…/reddits-r-place-protest-art

ForeverAGnome ,
@ForeverAGnome@lemmy.world avatar

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.

samsy ,

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.

ojmcelderry , (edited )

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

Agent641 ,

Can we make a lemmy logo on it?

arden ,
@arden@lemmy.world avatar

we have to do this

HurlingDurling ,

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

bcron ,

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    Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever ,

    And people will take pride in how “hard” they fought against the staff who literally just use the equivalent of ms paint to erase any particularly nasty “protests”

    Also, tinfoil hat, this seems like a really good approach. Much like Pao before him, Huffman is everything that is wrong with the company. So whoever buys reddit will install their own CEO, the entire world will cheer, and people will go back and be happy.

    GoodEye8 ,

    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.

    DogMuffins ,

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

    rustyfish ,
    @rustyfish@lemmy.world avatar

    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.

    AndreTelevise ,
    @AndreTelevise@lemmy.world avatar

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

    linearchaos ,
    @linearchaos@lemmy.world avatar

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

    at_an_angle ,

    Didn’t that happen last time?

    Zozano ,

    Yep, and someone got video proving it was one mod placing pixels without delay.

    SpeakinTelnet ,
    @SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works avatar

    The disappearance of the great 2B butt was the downfall of r/place. RIP

    Rooty ,

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

    JargonWagon ,

    Right? Keep this shit to c/reddit.

    NuPNuA ,

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

    samsy ,

    Just complaining to the new relationship.

    nolannice ,
    @nolannice@lemmy.world avatar

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

    jadrien1 ,

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

    Ryumast3r ,

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

    whatsarefoogee ,

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

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

    throwing_handles ,

    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.

    phoneymouse ,

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

    AlEi ,
    @AlEi@lemmy.world avatar

    And drive traffic to reddit? Nah

    R00bot ,
    @R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    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.

    phoneymouse ,

    “Use Lemmy” works for me

    mrmanager , (edited )
    @mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

    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.

    R00bot ,
    @R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

    Weird behaviour. Decentralisation shouldn’t mean tribalism.

    rDrDr ,

    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”.

    astropenguin5 ,

    I just created a community for this! Head over to !place_join_lemmy of you want to help out with construction when the time comes!

    Comment105 ,

    The actual pixel art, I believe, should read

    Fuck Reddit
    Join Lemmy
    [lemmy link]

    Patariki ,

    Lemmy show you the way.

    Furbag ,

    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.

    Hypersapien ,

    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.

    devious ,

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

    PixelProf ,

    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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