Mexico get out of there that’s not your family.
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?!
No. It’s pretty easy to not participate in r/place.
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.
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!
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.
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
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.
how did they censor? i saw so much fuck spez that didn’t seem to get censored at all.
Bots. People just built it back.
I really appreciate these posts; this way I don’t need to actually go to Reddit to see what it’s looking like.
Exactly what I was thinking every time I saw one of these.
What’s in the top right?
I agree with them! Fuck spez! He is a snivelly little turd!
Continuing to rebel against the site by using the hell out of the site and driving its numbers up, I see. Have fun with that.
I am curious about this IPO, because I want to see what a clownshow their cash flow statement is likely to be.
The move should be amping it up as much as possible before the IPO and than crashing it when a high IPO is set. Fucking over anyone who could believe they could wrench out some cash from it.
So, uh, reddit added OCR with banned words but allows flags, or what’s going on?
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.
Just use fonts that OCR can’t read
I’m not giving them any traffic, thanks
all my traffic goes into fuck spez works
Fuck spez is a meaningless message. Join-Lemmy.org however… 😎
Here’s the thing. Most people into the federated alternatives aren’t really going to the old place any more. I mean I’ll admit I’ve been taking a look at r/place every now and then. But otherwise I’m not engaging with my usual haunts there. That’s why there’s not so many people to make a big impact on the canvas for any of the federated projects.
However there are still a lot of people still active that are unhappy with spez and his activities. Which explains why that message has a lot more traction there.
Whats this new r/place everyone is talking of ?
From time to time reddit does a community project, where you have a canvas of 1000x1000 px and every user can set the color of a single pixel with a cooldown period of 5 minutes.
I believe it had the origin in a legend that some guy in the old web sold ad space on a 1000x1000 px canvas for 1$ per pixel and got rich with it.The million dollar homepage. Man that was a while ago.
I believe it had the origin in a legend that some guy in the old web sold ad space on a 1000x1000 px canvas for 1$ per pixel and got rich with it.
Not so much a “legend” as an easily verifiable known thing that happened which is still online.
But they are giving us traffic! (There’s a join-lemmy.org message in the middle of the canvas)
I helped!
it’s under constant attack
Salty admins if I had to guess
Same. Which is why I enjoy the drama remotely here at Lemmy.
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?
You can click and drag to move around, or zoom in and out with scroll wheel
Aha! My mistake then! Thanks!
It’s way tinier than this, this actually looks like a Photoshop.
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
Absolutely glorious, I’m actually proud of those poor sad bastards
It has become a competition for who has the biggest bonnet
Nice to see more people liking our creation. If you would like to check out our Lemmy banner, I posted it here.
We’re actually in the center of the map next to one of the most popular artworks as well.
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
