This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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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.
Someone who knows how needs to save a copy of whatever gets posted often.
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.
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.
So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant "fuck /u/spez" ?
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
“Use Lemmy” works for me
Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?
It's their "use in case of emergency" tool.
It was popular so they are bringing it out as a distraction.
My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.
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
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.
What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.
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
Maybe we should write lemmy somewhere...
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.