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I mean, I would be super surprised if they didn’t expect it. They will probably overstep their authority and clean it up and get caught like they did last time and cause yet more strife.
I’m just glad to have left the place when Apollo stopped working.
Reddit absolutely expected it. Wanted it, even. Reddit is going to show prospective investors its usage and engagement statistics for the duration of Place to demonstrate its continuing viability even after the API controversy.
Absolutely. Any publicity is good publicity for them. Stats are used to tell their story to shareholders
It’s not. I read this in any post here and it just doesn’t make any sense.
r/place made the rounds the previous times outside of Reddit. It showed what an engaged community can do, and it was beautiful (especially the first one). This one will only make it clear how much of the active community is against these changes. And it’s making it much more obvious than ever.
Yes people are using the site but Reddit won’t make bank on this. Most of the people protesting are probably using scripts and so on pc, and as such for sure using ad block as well. That’s no revenue for Reddit. Even the official mobile app can’t load it, so people aren’t even using that.
Yes they can boast about having more engagement and activity for a few days but that’s not worth it in this case at all. Reddit shots themselves in (the other foot).
Reddit isn’t looking for immediate ad revenue from Place users. Reddit is looking for the extreme engagement of Place to have great stats to show investors and advertisers.
Only to immediately bomb following, showing that their metrics are extremely unreliable, and their user base volatile.
If advertising is becoming hard on Twitter who is going to be buying big ad campaigns on Reddit? I can see it in my reply, products you don’t want to support.
Reddit is looking for the extreme engagement of Place to have great stats to show investors and advertisers.
Do you think investors and advertisers are brain-deadly stupid? If they can see “great stats” on one hand while the media is full of reports about the ongoing protests of reddit users, they will be able to see the whole picture.
Especially as r/place was all over the media in past years anyway. Only this year it’s full of destructive behavior and trying to destroy everything with fuck-messages. Sure, that’s totally good advertising for reddit somehow and not scaring advertisers away because “but look at the amount of people who koined to hate us”…
The fact that this is so transparent might bite them in the ass because it demonstrates that they are aware that they might not be in a great place if they need to take actions to “prove” everything is still ok. I agree with those saying that this showing everything is fine is more likely to be misleading, and misleading investors is a great way to get sued.
I am biased here, but to me this appears to be transparently misleading and if Reddit’s price tanks after the IPO, these actions will be examined closely during a class action suit that will get access to internal communications.
They can show high engagement, but if that engagement isn’t linked to profit or revenue, then calling it a good reason to buy shares is misleading. They need experts in investor relations and laws to help them navigate this minefield and I suspect that in the end, there will be a big disclaimer on all of the current activity.
Or if they are smart, this current activity isn’t for advertisers and investors but for users, to say “see, we’re still here and fun, so keep coming!”.
This is why I have been pressing the ONLY solution to this for the past month.
Do you want change? Leave Reddit. Delete the app. Never go back.
Personally, I’m at the point where I don’t really give a fuck what happens to Reddit either way, but I lean towards wanting them to continue existing as the easy low effort option for someone looking for that kind of an experience. If people chasing profit don’t think the fediverse is worth exploiting like they have been doing with Reddit, that would be a plus, but it would require Reddit to stay more popular (or for some other platform to rise above).
This place isn’t the utopia it first seemed to be when I joined, but it’s still way better than Reddit has been for years, at least when it comes to tone of the discussion threads.
The French flag had a guillotine with the “snoo” character labeled “Spez” in it. It’s since been removed.
I’m just glad they’re streaming on YouTube so I can see the shot show without visiting Reddit and pumping their numbers
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I reported that to YouTube for harassing huffman by saying “fuck spez.”
As unlikely as it is, Reddit getting banned from YouTube for harassing Spez would be hilarious.
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I used to use Infinity and RIF. Seems about right.
I want my 3rd Farty Apps
Don’t lie, you just wanted to post Deep Cock Galactic
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Cock and Bone
Did I hear cock and stone?!
Kidney stones?
Don’t forget My Little Porno.
Ah yes, My Little Porno and Deep Cock Galactic.
Cock and stone brother!
If you cock’n’bone, you’re never alone!
This sort of thing is why we need to save 3rd Farty Apps
Finally I show I can get behind
People should stop projecting all their hate onto the co-founder and top dog admin Spez and hate the entire platform and site itself instead.
Tbf , we are trying to recreate certain elements of that platform in the fediverse and such a take would be needlessly nuanced
“Stop the corporations” or “save the API” just isn’t as effective as saying f the guy who decided to change things
We should go and write AARON SWARTZ FOREVER on it too.
R.I.P Aaron Swartz. The world did not deserve you.
Wouldn’t it be great to carve out a space for ”Lemmy" there?
I’d love to but that would be giving reddit more traffic so I personally won’t be
Reddit’s normal traffic is 52 million users a day and 450 million a month. Lemmy has something like 150k active and 500k total users. Contributing to a thousandth of a percent of their activity to spread awareness of Lemmy isn’t going to even be visible unless literally everyone went.
I also stopped using Reddit, but I don’t begrudge people for poking their head back in. Though the Lemmy pixels got wiped out at some point.
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The internet scars us all in different ways.
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Convenient timing on r/place sorta like it’s to drive up traffic
They’re also purging mod teams right now
I like how yesterday everyone was like “wow what braindead timing, what are they even thinking” and today it’s people posting non-stop r/place updates.
Their goal is to get people to use their shitty platform and get ads into eyeballs. Congratulations, you all fell for it.
I mean I haven’t gone
DEEP COCK GALACTIC is doing well, I see.
they are allowing everyone to vent these frustrations and heal this is unacceptable
Deep cock
Cock and stone brother!
Galactic
Save Bro Farty Apps!
I already told my discord buddies that the only way I’d go to place would be to draw graphic pornography. It really should just be a giant pixelized Goatse or LemonParty made out of Fuck Spezs lol.
Never forget what was stolen from redditors…while completely caving and still using the platform.
