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.
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I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!
My cynical guess is that’s what they’re hoping the community will do (“like lemmings, I tell you!” - spez, probably) to drive higher traffic numbers before some announcement or meeting.
I KNEW IT LOL
I thought that they’d try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the siteThe 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
Negative engagement is still engagement… is what spez would say.
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!”
Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.
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”
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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
Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.
You don’t need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.
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.
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I couldn’t have said it better
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.
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.
Great though!
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
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.
Void is gonna do real well this year, I’d imagine.
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.
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” ?
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
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!”
Tbf, I don’t recall r/Place ever working on 3rd-party clients.
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.
this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.
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.
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.
Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏
We shall eagerly await your report. Lol
I just don’t have enough pop corn for this shitshow
