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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      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!”

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        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.

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        True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.

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          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.

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        this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.

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    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!”

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    Its a trap. The best way to fight reddit is to not even engage. Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.

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      Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.

      That would be amazing but also not gonna happen

      Edit: instead maybe the mods at r/pics can convince everyone to only place white pixels on the canvas

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        Especially since it was revealed Reddit employees had access to /r/places without a timer. They’d just fill it with random shit if it was dead (which it won’t be, because streamers will get people to flock there regardless).

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    Reddit admins got caught red handed using chatgpt bots to attack the moderator protests (one said “Sorry, I am not capable of generating inappropriate or offensive content.”), they no longer have the benefit of the doubt that they won’t use as many bots as they want to and control r/place with totality.

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    Sadly, nothing bad will happen to reddit no matter how many people try to protest with pixel art on /r/place. Last year, admins unabashedly removed entire swathes of canvas that they deemed inappropriate, sometimes catching legitimate art in the crossfire. Not to mention the admin who got caught red handed placing multiple pixels off of the timer, with video evidence.

    So no, a giant fuck /u/spez will never be allowed to exist long enough to be anywhere close to complete. They’ll do the same thing to any API related banner or whatever you might think of.

    The best thing you can do is not engage. They are doing this again so soon after the last one because they desperately need clicks and traffic to boost their site metrics for the upcoming IPO.

    Besides, it’s just going to be a canvas covered 75% in flags maintained by bots anyway because reddit sucks at programming in safeguards to prevent abuse, so your 1 pixel of contribution won’t mean squat.

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      I don’t know. The users are way smarter than the admins. I’m sure people can think of a way to do it that the mods won’t notice until it’s too late.

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    I was looking forward to the next version of r/place in a couple years. Now it’s just utterly pathetic pandering to attempt to bring disaffected users back to the site

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        Neither am I, I do kinda wanna know the general consensus of this, cause r/place was cool when it was on April 1st after several years between, now it’s just over a year in between on a random Wednesday.

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          Someone posted a reddit link to the announcement earlier. The comments were some variation of “bring back.third party apps”, “API”, “fuck /u/spez”, “this is obvious pandering to drive traffic” or debates about how best to vandalize the canvas. And a lot of German people saying German things for some reason lol. The comments there are actually pretty similar to the comments in this thread, minus the Germans

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        I’ve simply stopped generating content for them. Some of the third party apps still work without a subscription (probably rate-limited), so while I mostly browse Lemmy, I switch to Reddit when Lemmy’s feed runs out and just don’t add any comments or posts and don’t vote on anything. That way, because they get no ad revenue from me, I’m not benefitting the company in any way. I see no reason to avoid consuming content created by other people and posted online, regardless of what platform they use.

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    The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

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    This isn’t the worst time, it’s the best time.

    If you think like a capitalist, for their IPO it’s a catcher to show how strong and big the community is. Investors would love this.

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      Because the Reddit hive mind will most likely use it as a form of protest against spez. I also agree that it’s the best time, going to go get me my popcorn and enjoy the art

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          And people will take pride in how “hard” they fought against the staff who literally just use the equivalent of ms paint to erase any particularly nasty “protests”

          Also, tinfoil hat, this seems like a really good approach. Much like Pao before him, Huffman is everything that is wrong with the company. So whoever buys reddit will install their own CEO, the entire world will cheer, and people will go back and be happy.

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        There’s a great Lenin quote about it: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” If your goal is profit you will do anything for it, including letting the customers publicly shame you or your company.

        That said, I imagine Spez being petty enough interfere with the protest.

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      What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.

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      Why Lemmy world specifically? I’d just go for Lemmy in general and then it’s a shorter message and doesn’t lead to Lemmy world becoming even more bloated/slow.

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        Joining lemmy.world is a very straightforward replacement for reddit. “Join Lemmy.World” is a much more effective message than “do some research about various instances, register with one that federates with other instances you find interesting, and subscribe to specific communities by searching for them”.

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        I think people on Lemmy.world wants every Lemmy user to be on their instance. I have never seen any other instance post so much messages about how people should that instance instead of joining the network.

        Centralized will lead to a lot of issues for Lemmy but I guess people need to learn that.

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        The actual pixel art, I believe, should read

        Fuck Reddit
        Join Lemmy
        [lemmy link]

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      Organize to post offensive content in such a way that when the admins invariably censor/overwrite the offensive content, it reveals “Lemmy”.

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    This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.

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    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 site

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    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.

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      But that would require us to use Reddit, which I think may be their plan all along.

      Don’t be surprised when the Lemmy pixels are suddenly overwritten by spez.

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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!

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      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.