That’s cool to see. Honestly, I haven’t been to r/place at all, so I have no idea what’s happening there at all. I was only there last year for Technoblade.
RIF RIP 😭
Can’t wait for Boost for Lemmy
Rip bozo
What we really need to do is start writing down all the Lemmy instances. It’s one thing to tell off reddit, it’s another thing to get people off of reddit.
Let’s start with kbin.social.
Any ideas for a spot?
Mod reminder: We do have a rule against brigading. I know this is a special case - but please keep it respectful if you are planning to represent the Fediverse on r/place.
Why have a rule against brigading reddit?
I didn’t make the rules. I took over as top moderator yesterday. In general, we don’t want you to use this community to plan a brigade in a way that would make the Fediverse look bad. I could reword the rule to include that. It hasn’t even been an issue until today. It’s the first time I’ve seen it happening in the comments.
I just don’t get why anyone would care if we brigade another website, reddit literally brigaded the fucking stock market…
Thank you for having a respectful conversation with me even though you don’t agree with the rules. I will think about rewording that one to be more specific. Today has been very busy for me because of the r/place threads.
Don’t overwork yourself.
As I’ve explained elsewhere today, I don’t mind if you’re using this community to plan a brigade at r/place today that says something like “Join Lemmy” but if you’re planning to do something like make a large penis and put “Lemmy” next to it I’d rather you plan that somewhere else. Lemmy.world admins do not want us doing something that makes the Fediverse look bad on Reddit, much less planning it on the site.
Yeah that sounds reasonable.
R/place is only remotely possible through the act of brigading
In my opinion, something like “Join Lemmy” is fine, but a giant penis with LEMMY next to it is not as good a look and I’d rather you not coordinate that plan here.
Understood. I’m just requesting we don’t make the Fediverse look bad.
What is this? I understand it’s on Reddit, but I’m missing the context. Could somebody please explain it?
Several years ago for April Fools Day, Reddit launched /r/place, which created a canvas where users could place individual pixels every few minutes. Communities would get together to carve out their own little corner of the canvas for a piece of art, and overall the whole thing was pretty well received.
Last year for April Fools Day, they did it again. Overall, once again pretty well received.
Now, since Reddit has pissed everyone off, they’re doing it again again, likely in a desperate move to try and generate some positive community interactions. /r/place has always been pretty popular when they’ve done it before, so this is probably a ‘push in case of emergency’ attempt to placate users. Predictably, everyone’s still mad so they’ve littered the whole canvas with ‘fuck spez’ posts.
Never understood why they did it again not on April Fools Day, nor why they have no other ideas for April Fools jokes.
Here’s a good article about it from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800309/reddit-r-place-2023-protest
Newer article about how the crap has very much hit the fan with r/place: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801716/reddits-r-place-protest-art
In r/Place, individual users can drop a single pixel of color every five minutes on a huge canvas
Oh. I understand now. This is brilliant and totally expected. Why do they even stay there
Reddit has twice in the past (2017 and 2022, I believe April 1 both times) made r/place - an open canvas where anyone with an account could place a single pixel in a color of their choice every 5 minutes. It’s a fascinating social experiment, and was a lot of fun seeing images emerge, and communities spring up around coordinating efforts to make their mark. Doing it again at a somewhat random time only a year after last time is clearly an attempt to distract from the multiple reasons people are currently upset with Reddit, and it also clearly isn’t working, judging by the general tenor of anti-spez (Reddit CEO’s username) sentiment
Great, I understand now, thank you for explanation.
#neverforget
This comment is weird to me because people used to use hashtags ironically on Reddit where they did nothing. Here they do and seeing a clickable, functioning hashtag in a comment for the first time is odd.
Not clickable in jerboa
Or Connect
They’re on a kbin instance which supports the microblogging portion of activitypub (mastodon).
On kbin.social it takes you here: https://kbin.social/tag/neverforget. On lemmy it’s not a link.
I didn’t realize Lemmy doesn’t support hashtags, my bad
This is beautiful.
It’s all engagement for Reddit. They are probably laughing at how gullible people are.
They couldn’t make a profit when the engagement was generally happening in good faith. I doubt they’ll be able to convert this bad faith engagement into anything of value. It’s just a web app where you can change pixels, do they even have ads on there, let alone ones that won’t be blocked by all the users using ad blockers?
I mean, it is hard to tell what their goal was in even starting this. The results should have been very predictable. Maybe they were just trying anything they could think of out of desperation, or maybe the whole idea was to get a good idea of what people think of them and if there was a silent majority that didn’t care about the third party app drama but would engage sufficiently to drown out the spez hate at least a bit.
But this should have been predictable because even the very first r/place ended up dominated by automation tools, which are used by people looking for a custom experience rather than an official one.
I think the whole “any engagement = profit potential” is the mindset that got Reddit into this mess in the first place. Though maybe more on the angle of “the admins realized they needed to show evidence of that or even realize it for a successful IPO”.
Maybe. But if I was thinking about buying into their ipo I might be pretty skeptical of a social media site that’s actively antagonizing their users while it can barely turn a profit when 90% of their labor force are unpaid volunteers.
Engagement can be fleeting and I’m not sure their archive content is as valuable to LLMs as they think it is.
Gotta love it! I wonder if spez is paying any attention at all. Or better yet if the actual people in charge are.
I think they are leaving some of it up so the spez stans can “come to his defence” and this constant back and forth will generate traffic which is what he would use to convince investors to invest.
I think they realize that trying to prevent the “fuck spez” content is futile, and are instead focusing on blocking stuff that tells people about lemmy and other reddit alternatives. That’s much easier to get away with.
There’s no way they aren’t aware of this. But also: what did they expect?
Engagement with the platform to hype up their ipo
Won’t help. It’s a blip on the radar compared to average daily users. I’ll take the bad press any day.
Pretty sure they’re just gambling that this’ll give them a bump in installs/logins with their mobile app that they can use to boost their figures for IPO.
And that’s exactly what will happen.
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I do love the visual protest, but do you not have to go on Reddit to access space? Still giving them lot’s of traffic for the sake of something that may not even appear on the admins radar just seems a little ineffective. Again, love the protest, I just wonder about its efficacy.
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Not trying to be defeatist, but I feel pretty confident that this stuff will be forcibly or “accidentally” removed soon before the canvas stops being editable, or it will just be edited after the fact. The admins have the power to simply wipe away anything on the canvas that they don’t like.
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Amy attention, good or bad, is attention. I’m sorry, but I believe if this was just left completely blank, totally ignored, it would send more of a message .
I don’t buy into this “there’s no such thing as bad press” thinking. Having 10-15% of the canvas devoted to “fuck spez” kind of ruins the “but look at our engagement” argument.
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Sadly, the French guillotine is gone now.
If you’re going to protest, do it in a way that will upset Reddit’s ability to sell ads and stock. Put goatse on there. Drop hateful racism and misogyny. Link to The Flash torrents. Post hentai.
Won’t work, the Reddit admins just barge in there and start censoring it. Like the Spez effigy guillotine.
