Last year’s r/place event was beautiful and just amazing overall. The communities all coordinated and I was really taken aback by the final product. How this year’s one will turn out is anybody’s guess. I’m pretty sure even Spez is aware of this, so this just looks like a desperate attempt to drive engagement, even if most of it is negative.
This sounds desperate. Like, their monthly traffic stats must be bad and they recognize that r/place drove traffic and this will hide the dip in traffic.
If for one will definitely not be partaking, as I don’t want any of my traffic going to Reddit if I can help it.
However, I would be interested to see the result. I suspect there will be at least some references to the protests, if not censored, and a couple of "Fuck u/Spez"s for completeness
How long until people employ bots to create burner accounts and deface r/place.
I’m expecting tonnes of “fuck Spez” graffiti, along with some NSFW stuff.
We should have our own /c/place
With blackjack, and hookers!
How can you have that place w/o coke?
And the music from Twin Peaks!
Apollo users have the opportunity to do the funniest thing ever
former Apollo users.
They have jumped the shark, going the way of Digg, the death spiral. Bannings and mod replacements are the start. pr0n will be banned in 3… 2… 1…
tumblr 2.0 after they get their fat stacks of cash. But I think the VC’s are now aware and spez won’t get as much money has he hopes for that dead eye POS
Watch people build a graveyard of dead 3rd party apps, which gets wiped every so often by admins.
Which then gets covered up by a vague drawing that oscillates between a middle finger and a pixelated penis.
Meanwhile /r/Canada struggles with their leaf for the entire event
You mean r/Bananas
All the while Türkiye are creating a masterpiece right next door
There are 4 Canada flags on last years place
I just want someone to set up a loading bar beneath them that varies depending on how complete/fucked up the flag is.
Pretty sure they’ll be more subtle with the censorship this time, the community didn’t and won’t take sudden large black rectangles well. A couple of admins with the privilege to place unlimited pixels, which they have done before, could be enough to vandalize our banner to oblivion; they might also use bots or “shadowban” some of us. Luckily, I kept my 3-year-old Reddit account after overwriting its content with Lemmy links so I can join the fight. (I won’t be engaging with any subreddit, though, no matter their stance or my previous relationship with it. I’ve been happier since I went Reddit-free.)
Well, another desperate move to the list
Reject r/place. Embrace pxls space
I love projects like this, but I wish we could recapture the limited nature of place along with the sheer amount of engagement. I have no idea how it would work, but I’d love to see large scale limited time events like this take place with instance administrator support and integration into the fediverse somehow.
I’d call it the FediCanvas. Could be a regular event from all over the fediverse.
What about “Canverse?”
I’ve seen it done at geek conventions, to excellent effect. They generally live on a big screen, in the bar, at such events.
Though they can degenerate into ego wars, in amusing ways. One event had to ask people to limit using external systems to access the pixel wall in the bar. Someone used AWS to run animations on it. It tied up 2/3 of the entire event’s fibre backbone, still they killed it’s access. I think it was a 10Gb fibre setup. So they effectively DOSed it.
Real OGs remember drawball. the birthplace of polandball.
I will leave that r/Place completely alone and not even look at it. I am close to 5 weeks sober from Reddit and nothing that will happen there will bring me back. The best thing that can happen is no one participating, not even a f*ck spez picture, just an empty white page, not even Canada trying to get their flag on it.
I have less discipline than you, and still check periodically, specifically /r/news and /r/worldnews but I see that in doubt it less and less and it feels like lemmy/kbin communities is growing and posts are becoming more active.
I think though, that because it is decentralized, there should be a mechanism to group communities to prevent the fragmentation. So then subscribing to the group would subscribe to multiple communities.
Is there a quick explanation of what place is? A scroll through here didn’t reveal. In not gonna look on Reddit. Tx
It is a pixel canvas where people can draw stuff collectively. But they have to wait a longer time between a user can draw pixels.
Look at: https://lemmy.world/post/1865921
Also the mods can cheat and don’t follow the same rules.
Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when users are still furious over things like Reddit’s API pricing that forced beloved third-party apps to shut down, the company’s decision to remove chat history from before 2023 with hardly any warning, and its recent announcement that it would be sunsetting the current system to give Reddit Gold. The 2023 version of r/Place kicks off on Thursday, July 20th.
As you might expect, users are already using the announcement post to air their grievances toward the company. The current top comment in reply to the post just says “fuck u/spez” (“spez” is CEO Steve Huffman’s Reddit username), and many of the other comments say only “API,” so I wouldn’t be surprised to see that sentiment show up in some way on this year’s r/Place canvas.
I think even Reddit might be aware that the timing isn’t great. In a short announcement video, the company’s tagline for the event is “right place, wrong time.” In a different post, a Reddit admin (employee) shared a series of pushed dates for when r/Place would kick off — it was supposed to go live at the beginning of April but kept getting delayed:
April 1st (the previous two r/Place events were April Fools’ Day events) Then April 20th, two days after Reddit first announced the API changes (but didn’t announce pricing) Then May 4th Then June 15th, which was in the thick of the subreddit blackouts and coincidentally became the same day we had a contentious interview with Huffman Then June 23rd, which was one week before apps were set to shut down And now, July 20thPast r/Place experiments took place in 2017 and 2022. (Josh Wardle, who would later go on to create and then sell Wordle, thought up the idea for r/Place, according to Newsweek.) The final canvases for each (2017, 2022) are honestly fascinating pieces of work, with things like art, country flags, memes, and video game iconography all smashed together into colorful pixel collages.
For the 2023 edition, Reddit is letting subreddit moderators “pin” coordinates on the canvas to help community members more easily navigate to certain areas. While that does sound useful, I imagine some communities will use the feature to help focus their protest efforts.
Reddit declined to comment. It’s unclear exactly how long this year’s version of r/Place will be open to contributions; the 2017 version took place over 72 hours, while the 2022 edition was made over four days.
By the way, this announcement helped me solve where the ugly pixelated Reddit app logo is from: you can see it in Reddit’s r/Place announcement video. For some reason, that video also includes pixelated images of a fire in a garbage can.
Wow, the guy that created wordle came up with the idea for r/place? TIL.
The concept has been around way longer, in the 90s there were a few websites where you could buy pixel space on their page.
Most famous as I recall was: http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/
Thank you, I couldn’t for the life of me remember the names of any of them but yeah this was definitely one of them
My art teacher showed it to us in class, over a decade ago and it burned in my mind.
Next up they’ll be bringing back r/Time at the worst possible place.
Reddit is becoming a clusterfuck.
Always has been
