I agree with them! Fuck spez! He is a snivelly little turd!
I think im going to cry. It’s glorious.
So, uh, reddit added OCR with banned words but allows flags, or what’s going on?
Just use fonts that OCR can’t read
Country flags are the most popular thing in r/place, and country subs are big too. They can share a little of their clicks and reddit would think before pissing them off and erasing them. People kinda dislike when you erase the symbol of their country. It can also go into news.
If you guys really wanted to let Spez know how mad you are you would STOP GOING TO REDDIT… Every time “fuck spez” shows up on this page it just means a bunch of people got on Reddit and boosted their numbers which makes them look more valuable to investors for the IPO.
Do I really need to remind you that Spez or anyone else who works for Reddit COULD TAKE THIS DOWN AT LITERALLY ANYTIME THEY FEEL LIKE IT?
Every time you go there and write “fuck spez” I’m sure he goes to sleep crying into the giant pile of money he sleeps on
I’ll say it once more, if you want Spez to pay DO NOT GO ON REDDIT EVEN TO TELL HIM WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE HE IS, THAT IS LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO
This doesn’t make alot of sense to me. Doubt all that was created by Lemmy users that logged in to reddit-that’s simply Reddit users? Can’t be good for Reddit that this is going on such a large scale. And if nothing else … Great amusement lol
It only takes a few dedicated people with bots, but it does probably benefit their metrics.
Trying to convert those metrics into revenue is what started this whole thing in the first place. If they were so effective at turning any engagement to their advantage, we’d still all be engaging there via whatever third party app we were using before they got disabled.
Have you tried to actually go to r/place? You can’t even view the page on your phone unless you’re using their garbage official app. It’s definitely meant to try and increase app engagement
At this point it is big enough to gather the interest of the media whether it stays up or gets wiped, and investors watch the media like hawks.
Sorry, lad… folks really love the circlejerk and can’t/won’t stop doing it until it dies down. It’s kind of like “talking to a wall” at this rate.
See I think you have it twisted. We need a good mix of both.
If site traffic plummets thats bad for Spez, if place is a giant “fuck spez” banner and it gets reported on by tech news and legitimate financial news its also bad for spez.
If investors look at the blackout and the desperate scrambling for volunteers to mod subs, and a traffic decline AND the fact that the administration cant seem to do anything about some members turning place into a monkey shit fight at the zoo… Some of them might just realise that Reddit is a very risky investment.
I still say if this wasn’t exactly what the corporate management of Reddit wanted, then it would have been taken down by now though.
Why else would it exist? They’ve already proven that they won’t hesitate to censor/destroy anything that’s not in line with their plans for the IPO, so it doesn’t make sense that this one thing would be beyond their control in any way whatsoever.
Streisand effect. They keep deleting it. More people will help. Similarly, you telling people not to go on reddit, will make people go on reddit.
This is not Streisand effect, because the censoring happens on reddit. Anyone on that platform is already there.
I need to test that theory for science. Do NOT send me $20.
Streisand Effect really only applies if they were making their own submissions about it. Replying to this one doesn’t really make the cut IMO!
Obligatory fuck spez
FOOK OOEZI
Ok but… Why the are people criticizing the reddit CEO on reddit and thereby USING REDDIT? There is no need to spread that he’s shit anymore at this point for everyone to see. Everyone knows by now. If people don’t approve of his ways, they need to boycott his platform. But if they keep participating on r/place, they are literally supporting him by using his platform?!
Roughly speaking, there are three different ways people handle when something they enjoy is changed in a way they don’t enjoy.
The first simply cut their losses and move on, abandoning the thing. Nothing wrong with that. Things change and it’s okay to move on to something else. Companies that are causing harm to their user base should suffer the consequences of their decisions. Do this too much, though, and you may find you abandon your loves too easily.
The second just accept and bear it. Arguably nothing wrong with that as long as you still enjoy it. Just be careful that apathy is not taken for permission for further change.
The third will attempt to fight back in an attempt to preserve it. These are the type who still use Reddit even though they know it’s broken. They do not abandon it because to do so is to lose it entirely. They are trying to work within the system to change the system. Nothing wrong with that either, as long as you know when the battle is lost. They obviously don’t believe it has been lost yet.
Sabotaging the quality of reddit also hurts spez. Advertisers have been pulling out, ipo valuation is going down. If the super users make it a place people don’t want to go, they will stop going, and it will get worse. If they make life hard for the mods, some of them will say “fuck it.” And stop being mods because they will realize it’s not worth it.
It’s not just about raising awareness
You are right, I haven’t thought about it that way
No. It’s pretty easy to not participate in r/place.
Can’t talk for everyone, but for the case of rplace, I’d say propaganda.
I know of people who still use reddit as they always do, and its likely because they don’t know reddit’s latest (and terrible) corporate decisions, so using rplace to spread a message that tells people something is wrong with reddit is the first step for these people to find the right path: leaving reddit.
This is not a hot take, people are aware of the dissonance of using Reddit to complain about Reddit. But many folks are still upset but not upset enough to leave, or would like to leave but aren’t ready for places like Lemmy yet. It still needs work and polish before the average Joe will be comfortable here.
So in the meantime I say go for it, having fuck spez be one of the main focal points of the whole canvas is incredible and sends a message. Yea most folks have heard about it by now but might be surprised users are still upset, or never really understood what the big deal was before but maybe they look into it now. Every bit of negative sentiment on Reddit about Reddit will slowly push users away. This is more than a bit of negative sentiment.
I’d also like to add that this might be good publicity (or negative for Reddit). r/place gets mentioned in the news too.
Iirc Forbes ran an article about it.
Yeah, we need to make it more similar to Reddit with things like flairs and a more intuitive browsing system
There are still people OOTL on reddit, and there are also people who have no clue who u/spez is. Until people start calling out Steve Huffman by name for being a greedy pig boy, it won’t have much mainstream effect. A significant chunk of reddit’s userbase is relatively young (last 5 years or so) and have very little in the way of context.
Thank you, now it actually makes more sense to me!
Hey, what better way to convey how people feel about Spez than to collaborate in such large numbers on his own platform to draw it out pixel for pixel…
r/place isn’t gonna last much longer either, I wouldn’t be surprised if many of the people that collaborated on the Fuck Spez messages end up ditching Reddit more or less altogether after r/place is over.
Honestly I can’t wait to see the final time lapse.
Sadly gone now. Admins won’t let this stand. Although the time lapses are hilarious.
All the time and energy they’re spending moderating this, could have been time better spent improving literally anything. Usability, moderation tools, mobile app.
Uhhh no? I just checked, it’s in the middle far right, and if you’re looking at the whole things it’s one of the biggest single pieces that jumps out at you.
I’m so proud 🥲
Weird, I totally don’t see it. Am I supposed to slide the image around or something?
It’s way tinier than this, this actually looks like a Photoshop.
You can click and drag to move around, or zoom in and out with scroll wheel
Aha! My mistake then! Thanks!
I still don’t understand what r/place is /:
Essentially, there is a massive pixel-divided canvas. It starts out pure-white.
You are allowed to place one single pixel of a certain subset of colors every x minutes (I don’t remember how often, somewhere between 5 minutes to an hour).
Your pixel(s) can be overridden by any other user who places their pixel on your space after you place yours.
Some people come together to form collaborative art, messages, etc. (As seen here).
In the past, there have been countries’ flags, a giant spreading black void, hidden Among Us beans, and many fandom-specific and subreddit-specific images.
Thanks for explaining it. I had a vague idea via context clues it was something like that.
Don’t forget to mention paid reddit employees like /u/chtorr can bypass the limit and just place pixels as fast as they want to censor wrong think
I like how u/spez ist ein hurensöhn was still there last time I check
Spez is a Whoreson? I know literally 0 German but I’m confident that’s what that says
Yes… Son of a whore / son of a bitch
The phrase “Sprich deutsch, du Hurensohn” (“Speak german, you son of a whore”) has evolved from an insult to somewhat of an insider meme in german subreddits. It was an answer to english comments flooding german subreddits and making communication difficult.
And now we basically can call anyone a Hurensohn and it now counts as transformative art lol
The translation that everyone knows which came from Google translate is spez is a son of a bitch, but I think whoreson might be more correct
You’re right. It’s the better translation.
Regardless of whether you’re Mexican, Italian, German, Indian, Costa Rican, French, Venezulean, LGBTQ, a brony or whatever other flags are here, we can all agree on one thing
Fuck Spez
Don’t really like all the nationalism, or the lgbt flag nestled in there among a bunch of nationalism, but they’ve got the spirit.
Self-validation is one hell of a drug. :^)
Hmm? I don’t understand what you’re saying.
It’s because the braindead national flag makers are always the first. Easy to do and idiots are more than willing to do it.
Yeah it’s a bit of a shame. There’s much more interesting things you can draw.
This didn’t happen on the first Place. It only happened in the later ones. Reddit got significantly more nationalistic over time.
they should change it to fuck reddit because when spez gets fired, they will think the battle is won, which will lose them the battle
At this late stage, I think everyone ends up losing this one no matter what happens
It has become a competition for who has the biggest bonnet
now there’s a big “FUCK U/SPEZ” sign
oh is it already white pixel time?
yeah, r/place is about to end
Feels too soon bruh
Feels too soon bruh
I like that the S is a $
Whoever decided to turn the S into a dollar sign is a fuccin artist wwwwww
fr
Just found this for viewing place without Reddit:
Love it, this is great, there’s even a search.
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You can include the moderators in that.
i love how no one has created a paid-not-payed bot for lemmy. (your second-to-last word)
Is there a way to disable the outlines?
Would love kind this too!
nice!
Fuck Spez
How tf does that work? That’s incredible.
AI
This is a cooperation between France, Costa Rica, Venezuela, Germany, LGBTQ, Trans community, India, and more.
France
Costa Rica
Venezuela
Germany
LGBTQ
Trans community
IndiaThe real G7
Why is the trans community listed separately from LGBTQ? Isn’t the T literally for transgender?
Yeah it sure does. Probably just because trans people specifically have been having a shit time lately with all the assholes.
So it’s nice to call them out specifically in a positive way. That’s my assumption at least.
The “Fuck Spez” is much smaller when you view the whole thing :(
They have expanded the canvas several times. As far as I remember more quickly and frequently than they did before.
I wouldn’t be surprised at all if they did that to achieve this very effect, way more space so protest art isn’t so prominent.
still one of the biggest pieces though
holy crap they really added a description for everything
Yea this is pretty cool. I can finally identify stuff I’ve seen on there before but could never figure it out.
