• @[email protected]
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    452 years ago

    They’re doing r/place again? Didn’t they just have one last year or something? I thought it was supposed to be once every five years event, much like somebody telling spez he is loved.

    • Disney Fan
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      742 years ago

      It looks to me that they’re basically doing it as a desperate last resort.

      • @[email protected]
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        352 years ago

        “even though mods hate us, everyone else loves reddit. See these recent spikes in user engagement”

      • Undearius
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        232 years ago

        It can only be accessed through their mobile app, or on the web with the new interface (old.reddit.com won’t work).

        They don’t care what people are putting on the board, it’s still an increase in people engaging with the new interface and the official app.

        • @[email protected]
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          132 years ago

          Just like they don’t care about r/pics turning into John Oliver only. It pumps up the numbers, so they can show advertisers and investors a rosy outlook.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Sure, but at the same time all of the casual redditors who somehow weren’t aware of the controversy (the ones making threads asking who spez is, for example) are now going to learn more about the controversy and be informed enough to make their own decisions on continuing to use the site. For the short term their engagement will go up but it’s very possible that their long-term engagement drops even further after this decision

    • Marthenil
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      152 years ago

      People just want to consume mindless entertainment. I’m extremely jaded over the whole thing and I’ll be very glad to be proven wrong, but I betcha regular users will participate as usual and drown out any form of protest.

      • @[email protected]
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        22 years ago

        Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It’s still going but it’s not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.

  • @[email protected]
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    52 years ago

    After weeks of not giving their users a platform to speak about the changes they decide to give their users a giant platform, some real 4D chess being played here

  • @[email protected]
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    1032 years ago

    Classic tactic. Let em rant in a special “freedom zone” and do nothing else. I know, obvious, but still maddening. I left reddit behind forever.

    • Marxism-Fennekinism
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      Yeah there is no way they didn’t intend this when they opened it back up. It’s protest theatre, give them a punching bag so they don’t stir up real shit.

      • @[email protected]
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        152 years ago

        Being enraged is also being engaged (see Fox News).

        So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 years ago

          So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.

          I feel like those people are pretty dumb. Like, if they could all just leave and go elsewhere, they’d be much better off than yelling in circles and not getting anything accomplished.

          The website is obviously run by a crazy fuckhead CEO, so might as well go elsewhere - especially somewhere decentralized where that can’t be a problem.

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          Exactly my thoughts. They saw a drop in traffic this month after the API changes killed 3rd party apps and just want to boost this month’s numbers so it doesn’t hurt their valuation and upcoming IPO further.

  • @[email protected]
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    32 years ago

    I was on Reddit for 12 years and I’ve literally never even heard of r/place until people started talking about it coming back this week

  • @[email protected]
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    It warms my heart to see so much fuck spez amidst the normal nation-state flag spam.

    Thank you for the screenshot so I don’t have to give Reddit any traffic.