Placing pixels is hardly giving reddit anything of value. Logging in to an account. Contributing your time, content (posts/comments), and moderating on the other hand is “helping” them build their system.

Also I am pretty sure bots are ripping r/place up right now, so it’s even more useless. Right now this event is a massive drain on their resources (server/cloud costs). Even as we speak, the instability of reddit is increasing across the site (seeing multiple page errors across the site), and thus decreased actual traffic, and thus decreased advertising revenue.

Would hate to be an SRE for reddit at this point. Servers probably on fire lol