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Geek_King ,

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!”

CataclysmZA ,
@CataclysmZA@lemmy.world avatar

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

Holodeck_Moriarty ,

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

AaAaaaAaAA ,

So that’s what he’s calling it these days

UserDoesNotExist ,

You are missing the point. People will return there to partake. r/place was immensely popular.

Most people expected a 5 year wait. So for most people this becomes a refreshing surprise. And for the duration of the event, many people on Lemmy will return to Reddit. They will partake in organising pixelart and thereby getting pulled back into Reddit communities.

AaAaaaAaAA ,

Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis “potential”

jackiechan ,

💀

stinky613 ,

Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham’s idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched

vanityfair.com/…/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-oha…

assassinatedbyCIA ,

Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.

rDrDr ,

You don’t need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.

NightOwl ,

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.

GCostanzaStepOnMe ,

Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.

Conowelle ,

But it’s just the randomness of it being release on a random july Wednesday just over a year after releasing the last one. Idk if people will care as much about this one

EliasChao ,

According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.

30isthenew29 ,

Dis gon’ be good…

whatsarefoogee ,

You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.

FuglyDuck , (edited )
@FuglyDuck@lemmy.world avatar

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

BrooklynMan , (edited )
@BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml avatar

Oops! All swastikas!

db2 ,

It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”

CookieJarObserver ,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Nah it will be covered up by the admin brigade and cause more Trubble for reddit.

IIII ,

By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in

db2 ,

I’ve been sending the other admins messages (not directly obviously) like “he can’t fire all of you”. 😈

assassin_aragorn ,

Devious!

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

then spez will ban every account that contributed to it

Holodeck_Moriarty ,

So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?

whileloop ,
@whileloop@lemmy.world avatar

Its enough to make me log into Reddit again.

Usernameblankface , (edited )
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

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.

jaamesbaxterr ,

We shall eagerly await your report. Lol

ComeHereOrIHookYou ,
@ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world avatar

Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏

qooqie ,

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!”

justhach ,
@justhach@lemmy.world avatar

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.

LUHG_HANI ,
@LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.

graphite ,

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.

LUHG_HANI ,
@LUHG_HANI@lemmy.world avatar

Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.

teuast ,

this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.

EliasChao ,

Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.

dreadedsemi ,

Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn’t want.

kernelle ,

I’m hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We’ll see

Conowelle ,

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

30isthenew29 ,

I’m not gonna go back…

Conowelle ,

Neither am I, I do kinda wanna know the general consensus of this, cause r/place was cool when it was on April 1st after several years between, now it’s just over a year in between on a random Wednesday.

BarrelAgedBoredom ,

Someone posted a reddit link to the announcement earlier. The comments were some variation of “bring back.third party apps”, “API”, “fuck /u/spez”, “this is obvious pandering to drive traffic” or debates about how best to vandalize the canvas. And a lot of German people saying German things for some reason lol. The comments there are actually pretty similar to the comments in this thread, minus the Germans

30isthenew29 ,

It’s always the Germans

Boinketh , (edited )

I’ve simply stopped generating content for them. Some of the third party apps still work without a subscription (probably rate-limited), so while I mostly browse Lemmy, I switch to Reddit when Lemmy’s feed runs out and just don’t add any comments or posts and don’t vote on anything. That way, because they get no ad revenue from me, I’m not benefitting the company in any way. I see no reason to avoid consuming content created by other people and posted online, regardless of what platform they use.

30isthenew29 ,

Does it really avoid getting them ad revenue tho? As long as you get the ads, they’re paid to reddit.

Boinketh ,

Huh? I’m not getting ads. Even if I was, the money would be going to third party app devs.

steve228uk ,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

I’m gonna be cracking out the popcorn for this one.

bappity ,
@bappity@lemmy.world avatar

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

CookieJarObserver ,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Fixing the Titanic with chewing gum…

NullSkull ,
@NullSkull@lemmy.world avatar

… and they forgot to chew it first!

Tibert ,

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.

Usernameblankface ,
@Usernameblankface@lemmy.world avatar

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

G59 ,

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

Jar2Eau ,
@Jar2Eau@lemmy.fmhy.ml avatar

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.

polyfire ,

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.

stebo02 ,
@stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

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

micka190 ,

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).

TheHighRoad ,
@TheHighRoad@lemmy.world avatar

One massive, throbbing, pixelated John Oliver.

polyfire ,

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

Seytoux ,

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

ilovecarrotjuice ,

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

TechieJosh ,
@TechieJosh@lemmy.world avatar

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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