Well stop doing your part. Stop interacting with Reddit. They are almost certainly doing Place right now just to boost their numbers and you’re falling for it
Yeah, but in exchange for a brief flurry of engagement they have to put up with another wave of articles about angry reddit user protests:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/redditors-are-already-using-r-place-to-address-api-controversy/
They don't care. You're not even bed bugs to these people. You're just the siren that's heard 20 blocks away downtown at 10 pm.
No biggie. Par of the course.
The black hole? Do your homework, it's the void.
Btw. Why just "fuckspez" the Lemmy mascot would be better.
Yes, they ban moderators in the full knowledge in reducing the quality and well behavedness of users and to increase traffic by upset people. This is exactly what they want: upset people = engagement. This how Twitter works or maybe used to work, I didn't follow the recent changes too closely.
100% agree. I'm one of the April Knights that team up every April Fool's for the events. They are 4000% doing this to boost numbers. Fuck them entirely. I refuse to participate.
That being said, we need to have our own April Fools event. I wonder if anyone would be interested in this? If there is enough of it, I'll see if I can take on a new coding project.
I have no idea what you’re talking about but that sounds like a great idea
R/place will increase their traffic no matter what. At least the picture can convey the protest message so they know we aren't going to move past it that easily. Plus, keeping r/place open all day is increasing their server costs while providing no ad revenue. I don't go to reddit other than to spread to good word of Lemmy and to downvote admins so I think that has more benefit to us than to them.
At least the picture can convey the protest message so they know we aren't going to move past it that easily.
As if that means anything to them?
You're a minority.
don't go to reddit other than to spread to good word of Lemmy and to downvote admins so I think that has more benefit to us than to them.
Reddit admins ABSOLUTELY RUINED by frequent EXPLETIVES and DOWNVOTES
or write 'join lemmy' so you take away the numbers in the long run
I did stop interacting with Reddit, I only put one pixel in because there are still a lot of people there that haven't given up yet and this is their way of protesting.
Even if it's not the way I choose for myself, I still respect them for holding the ground.
This is my homage for those people.
Do your part by not getting baited into reddit my friend. You are providing revenue to them by doing so.
Dude I know, it's like the 100th comment like this: I get it.
But stop being so invested in what you think is true and consider this: there are still a lot of people protesting reddit on reddit because they want to stay there and they don't like the direction it is going.My grandfather used to say "we didn't beat the fascists by ignoring them: that's how they got the power in the first place". And while I'm a firm believer that boycotting is the best way of dealing with this sort of problems, I believe that sometime it's also efficient to scream "fuck you" to somebody's face.
Like 90% boycotting and 10% "fuck you" seems a good ratio.[Gets down from the soap box]
Obviously this community has two valid, opposing viewpoints on this, but I’m with you. I just can’t imagine that the small amount of traffic generated by those actively protesting really amounts to big bucks or metrics for the site.
Meanwhile the ability to immortalize “fuck [the CEO]” on his own platform is probably pretty rare throughout human history.
Just a reminder for anyone that wants to check up on r/place without giving Reddit your money, there are tons and tons of twitch streams that show how r/place currently looks.
If you aren’t actively helping create the “fuck spez” check our r/place without giving Reddit traffic.
a random one: https://www.twitch.tv/streamhubpro
STFU about that POS website.
Make me!
[puts the dukes up in a cartoonish stance]
Honestly y’all are just bragging about how dumb y’all are at this point.
“I’m gonna protest a website I hate by giving them more traffic! That will show them”
Do y’all pay grifters your money to spite them too?
“I’m gonna protest a website I hate by giving them more traffic! That will show them”
"I'm gonna disagree with a meme by commenting over and over so it will stay relevant for days"
You guys can't even follow your own logic
The opposite of love (attention for Reddit) is not hate. It is indifference.
I'll just enjoy the fun from the comfort of whoever reposts it on Lemmy.
Looks like they won't publish a timelapse video after it's all over like last year.
Someone will
Anything else of note so far? How big is the "Fuck spez" section relative to the whole canvas?
Also how long until admins "fix" it, I wonder...
I can't imagine it would be that hard for this to have been designed to ignore input from users that contributed to certain pixels, allowing them to control what shows up on Place.
Wait wait wait Reddit is going r/place right now??? Why on earth would they do that
Probably because it’s historically generated a ton of traffic and they’re trying to fluff up their numbers to hide the aftermath of their mistakes.
Bingo. This is ragebait for financial gain.
100% for traffic/numbers to show investors and advertising companies. Don’t give them the satisfaction, it’s better to stay away.
I heard it was planned for 23. June, but postponed because of the protests
Boy am I glad we don't have that nonsense on lemmy. Why people care about that garbage is beyond me.
It was cool the first time.
Now it just feels desperate
The first r/place in 2017 was genuinely special. It was totally unique, and it was a really cool social experiment to see how people could collaborate. By the time the second one came out it was obvious the bots were out in full force. None of my individual contributions lasted long. I have zero interest in doing it again.
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Keep up the good work!
Where were you six years ago
WHERE WAS GONDOR WHEN THE WESTFOLD FELL?!
Where now are the horse and the rider?
Where is the horn that was blowing?
Indeed xD
This whole situation feels like the wotc strike, Laziness wins and the corporate god doesn't have to deal with consequences
Hard at work on the K at your 10 o'clock soldier! o7
If you really wanted to make him mad you'd have left the damn thing blank.
These are just adding threads to his golden parachute.
I'm currently working on advertising for r/EndFPTP
I downloaded the app specifically just to help, and I'll delete it when I'm done.
I figure taking down the duopoly is more important than taking down Reddit for a day.
https://www.reddit.com/r/EndFPTP/comments/154kix3/rplace_returns_in_5_hours_we_must_create_a_spot/
There should be a remake of the Star Trek William Shatner SNL skit that replaces Trekkies with Redditors
The state of Lemmy right now:
Near global capitalist
I sleep
Reddit makes third party clients unprofitable, mostly amplified by Meta
Real shit?!
