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.
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.
Given the dimensions are huge, the opportunity for a gigantic manipulated photorealistic image is there. How about a photo of Spez sucking an entire bag of dicks.
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
So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?
Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn’t want.
I’m hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We’ll see
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…
We shall eagerly await your report. Lol
If we’re patient, we can see it play out a dozen times in YouTube videos without giving Reddit any traffic.
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!”
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.
this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.
True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.
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.
Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.
Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.
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Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.
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.
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.
The more recent Verge article includes a gallery of some progress images: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801716/reddits-r-place-protest-art
Great though!
Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”
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
Lemmy show you the way.
And drive traffic to reddit? Nah
I just created a community for this! Head over to [email protected] of you want to help out with construction when the time comes!
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
Admins will watching it and nuking giant spots every few minutes like they did last time, when they didn’t consider it advertiser or IPO friendly enough.
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.
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!”
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.
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.
What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.
So that’s what he’s calling it these days
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.
Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis “potential”
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
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit
Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.
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
According to the article, they kept pushing it back because, uhm, reasons.
That’s a whole lot of “fuck spez”. Well done, strangers.
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.
