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Totally not suspicious timing at all.
Also if you’re willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They’re not fooling anyone.
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I’m having fun with the Fediverse. I’m pretty sure Reddit doesn’t care if everyone leaves. I still like reading news about them but I’ve not been back. If I accidentally click on someone’s posted reddit link (happens a lot - trying to retrain!) I back out quick before it loads.
I have to say though, I’m going through Reddit withdrawal this week. I’ve also moved away from Twitter. Even though the Fediverse is great, it’s still growing and the apps don’t have everything I need. I’ve been grumpy and unsettled and 100% it’s because my beautiful Reddit app and routine has gone away.
I still like reading news about them but I’ve not been back. If I accidentally click on someone’s posted reddit link (happens a lot - trying to retrain!) I back out quick before it loads.
This is the whole reason I still haven’t uninstalled Boost. It doesn’t work anymore but it’s still set to open as my default, so if I ever click by accident, I’m met with a blank screen before I remember.
There’s a boost for Lemmy. Idk if it’s ready (I’m on iOS, but used to use boost on android, and I miss it so much, I just come across the news now and then), but you might be able to test it if not!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
Don’t worry it will get better and in the long term you will feel even better than before you quit reddit. For me quitting reduced the time spent on my phone by more than an hour per day.
I feel like instead of writing ‘fuck spez’ on reddit, the best decision is to ditch it completely. I mean, I do still visit reddit due to some niche communities that don’t have that big of a user-base on lemmy, but clearly reddit exists for 10+ years. The change can’t happen overnight. In any case, I am still astonished by how quickly lemmy got that much traffic. From a small village, it has turned into a city, it’s incredible. :)
Someone’s already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)
edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN
This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.
What fresh hell is this
They didn’t “review” subs when there was one using images of children as child pornography, without the subjects knowledge or consent.
They didn’t “review” subs when mask-off, far-right extremists moved in and started trading slurs and writing murder fantasies.
They didn’t “review” subs when reactionaries were spreading dangerous and clearly false medical misinformation in the middle of a pandemic.
But they’ll review subs when those subs might be a threat to their revenue.
I’m pretty sure that’s just the standard message they show when you attempt to view any nsfw content on their new site.
The sub doesn’t appear to be marked as NSFW.
Right, but give your users free reign to draw whatever they want pixel by pixel and it’s going to quickly become nsfw. I know reddit sucks and all and I’m not trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. I just don’t think this message is the conspiracy theory everyone thinks it is.
Not exactly a conspiracy theory to predict that a company that has been routinely unethical might be unethical.
Actually, Spez personally reviewed a subreddit rife with child pornography, r/Jailbait. Everyone seems to forget that Spez is actually a pedophile.
I almost can’t believe it. Now they’re just like Twitter, gotta log in to view the shit you want.
Man spez really can’t stop copying Elon. It’s sad really
Spez and Elon sitting in a tree, ruining the internet entirely.
Old.Reddit doesn’t have that problem though I’m sure they’re working on it
Give it a week…
When old.reddit finally goes away is when I will finally stop even the minimal remaining interaction I have with that site.
Censorship. They don’t want unregistered guests seeing alternatives
Absolutely goddamn pitiful. Fuck Reddit.
Open it in browser and change the “www.” To “old.”
Spez is one of those people who still find Elon perfect and infallible despite everything. It’s worse though, because he has the power to change things.
If r/place ever taught me anything it is that coordination of r/place does not happen on Reddit.
On both cases it was swarmed and “ruined” by influencers on other sites.
This one looks promising. Just spam it everywhere like the amongus last time.
you can make it smaller by using colors
Yeah that’s definitely better, they hadn’t come up with that yet when I posted this
I wouldn’t put it past the admins to actively try to remove protests on r/place
They censored a lot of stuff on r/place back in 2022 (I don’t remember the 2017 r/place). It seems basically inevitable that they’re going to remove all of the “FUCK SPEZ” stuff at some point (or try and put something else on the canvas where the “FUCK SPEZ” stuff is). It would be really bad publicity for the site if a picture of the canvas plastered with “FUCK [the CEO of Reddit]” ended up in the media before the site’s IPO. I’d love to be wrong though as it’ll be fucking hilarious if the final canvas picture has at least one giant “FUCK SPEZ” on it.
They might do their mass censorship operation when their most active users are asleep to limit the outrage.
I’m counting on it
This makes me sick honestly. r/place is one of the nicest memories I have of Reddit and now they’re using it as a cheap tactic to bait us to come back. Really a low blow.
I’m betting it’s going to be either overrun with protest content and Lemmy advertisement, or it’ll be so heavily locked down and curated that it’ll be an obvious shell of its former self.
It doesn’t matter because even if it ends up with the greatest fuck spez message ever it’s still engagement on the site and that’s what they’re looking for.
If the “engagement” consists of people seeing advertisements for alternatives to Reddit and reasons why they should be trying them out, I’m fine with spez thinking he’s “won” somehow because a line briefly went up.
Let’s be real. /r/place is a good time. It’s going to keep people interested in Reddit and not the tiny corner that’s fighting with Reddit bootlickers to make a Lemmy space.
Did you read the comments on the thread announcing /r/place? It’s going to keep people interested in Reddit’s fuckups. Those are going to be plastered all over it.
I like Lemmy, it’s much more mellow and the discussions are much better. I’ve given up on Reddit personally. But sometimes people here have a crazy idea in their heads that Reddit is actually going to suffer and lose people and Lemmy is going to take them all in. I don’t think the majority of Reddit is going anywhere even with their fuckups
The majority doesn’t have to go anywhere. Just the most engaged people (the ones who will be visiting /r/place, for example) who provide the value that keeps the other ones visiting and viewing ads. Once they’re the only ones left the site will be basically a zombie.
It takes time for giants to fall. Digg is still around to this day, and Reddit will likely be around a decade from now too. It just won’t be the “front page of the Internet” any more.
The last one was great for the fuck cars movement; this one easily has the potential to be similarly good for the threadiverse even despite any Reddit engagement it entails in the short run.
Ah /fuckcars. The /atheism of environmental causes
The biggest fuck you that can be sent is the thing staying completely empty
won’t happen though, so we may as well twist it to our use
I’m going with both. It will be a free for all at first with a ton of protest stuff and after a day (maybe less) they will realize “oh shit we forgot this was the internet” and then lock it down.
I feel like it’s a thing you really can do only once. Just like Twitch plays Pokémon. It’s super exciting when no one knows what’s the outcome. People try to figure it out in real time.
But the second time you already know what’s going to happen. People have already figured it out. Subs had already worked out plans before it even started.
Any attempt at replicating it becomes stale in comparison.
Yeah and it’s also too much effort for communities to band together around it every year. Someging that requires this much effort from communities should remain once every 5 years, otherwise they’ll stop participating.
Not that it even matters at this point :(
I feel it might remain special with enough time between events. Once every 4+ years allows enough shift in users and internet culture to make each unique, if not as special as the first time. Allow every Reddit-“generation” to make their mark.
This one is just empty, though.
Not really. It’s like trying to recreate Woodstock. It’s just not the original.
I never tried it, thinking, “there’s always next year.”
Fuck Spez. I’ll go back to Reddit to protest there and then leave again, bye it’s not what I’d hoped.
Corporations don’t care about you or your nice memories, unless they can monetise that somehow. Something to keep in mind. It’ll be reddit trying to abuse us today, and some other business in the future if we let them.
I know that, sadly. Doesn’t stop me from feeling disgusted by it.
I feel pretty confident that there are gonna be some protest graphics :P
I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot more far right content on it this time round. :(
Not really a new thing for them, they’ve been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week
We gonna take it over and continue the message of fuck u/spez?
We’ll certainly try. If nothing else make them regret using it as a distraction
But you are back on Reddit in the meantime, and they know that even small engagements are what start to bring people back. It’s like smoking cigarettes, it only takes a few to fall back into the habit. Suddenly your popping by your old favorite communities to check in on things and blah blah blah slippery slope.
Maybe. But it’s pretty easy to not contribute even if I succumb to the temptation of swinging by. And reddit gets no ad revenue from me.
Just don’t give in to any temptation and it’s fine. If you’re going, you’re contributing to their traffic and hence to their value proposition to advertisers whether you click ads or not.
Flood it with bots, each managing one pixel to collectively spell out “fuck u/spez”
Quick, someone figure out a way to write ‘Fuck u/spez’ without increasing site traffic!
Time to make as many Lemmy references as possible on that canvas. Hidden, overt, just everywhere
Like the Among Us characters…Lemmy across the board! Some brave soul should grab screenshots, for those of us who won’t go there out of spite.
I’m sure we will have another round of recap videos on YouTube that will be made up of screenshots
The only thing they could bring back that would make me consider making an account is TheButton. By the way I was a 42s Blue Hitchhiker.
Lmfao the past few weeks have legit looked like a corpse flailing on the ground, it’s nervous system pumping out every desperate attempt at reviving the body.
But make no mistake, the body is dead.
I mean, have you seen a headless chicken? When i was at my grandparents i’d see them quite often. Some would take even 30 minutes to stop moving. Gruesome, but it does teach a lesson about things flailing about long after they’re dead.
I’m not gonna use reddit ever again, but I can’t wait for the shitshow lmao
Totally not suspicious timing at all.
I like how they included June 23 in their animation, like they’d been planning to do it for reddit’s Very Special 18th birthday and just accidently overshot, instead of “they’re foundering and are desperately trying to drive traffic to the site back up so they can tell the advertisers and the investors that traffic and engagement is back up” - without telling them exactly what they did to try to drive traffic back up.
Current view seems to be a great big “API” on the screen, but I absolutely wouldn’t put it past them to either skew the accounts (admin accounts can change colors as much as they want!) or do something annoying like arranging for xQc and his little cult to grief the board again (which probably wouldn’t take much beyond someone telling him that he was welcome to do so).
What was r/place? Not familiar with it.
Giant public canvas. Once every ten minutes, each reddit user can select the color for any one pixel they want.
Thanks! I do remember that and was late to the last one. That was neat to see.
They cannot possibly think that this is a good idea.
Will drive tons of traffic.
Ah, reddit comment bots. Now with…Boomhauer?
For nobody wondering, I’m gonna go with lolno. Moving away from reddit means I’m moving away from reddit, not screaming profanities on their front lawn at 3am like a drunken ex trying to prove how much I don’t need them.
Looks like someone continuously hitting the suggested words on there cellphone keyboard.
Also, love the analogy.
