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
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.
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.
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.
I think it would be beneficial if we get Lemmy exposure on there. Sure their numbers might go up but some people will leave knowing how shit the platform is.
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.
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.
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.
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.