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.

    • @whileloop
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      Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…

      • @Usernameblankface
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        If we’re patient, we can see it play out a dozen times in YouTube videos without giving Reddit any traffic.

        Edit: I am not patient.

      • @jaamesbaxterr
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        151 year ago

        We shall eagerly await your report. Lol

      • @ComeHereOrIHookYou
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        11 year ago

        Sounds like a plan! Time to log in on my Reddit account… wait… oh… right 😏

    • @qooqie
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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!”

      • justhach
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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.

      • LUHG
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        81 year ago

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

        • @graphite
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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.

          • LUHG
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            21 year ago

            Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.

      • @teuast
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        41 year ago

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

    • @dreadedsemi
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      271 year ago

      Admin can remove it easily like last year. They removed several things they didn’t want.

      • @kernelle
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        51 year ago

        I’m hoping sentiment is shared enough for this not to be effective. We’ll see

  • @Geek_King
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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!”

    • @CataclysmZA
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      1161 year ago

      Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

    • @[email protected]
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      291 year ago

      No such thing as bad publicity and for reddit’s case no such thing as bad user engagement. He could right in that area. As much as reddit users complain as long as they keep engaged with the platform instead of doing it somewhere else and keep visiting it frequently to vent their frustrations it’s a win. Engagement is engagement.

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        But it’s just the randomness of it being release on a random july Wednesday just over a year after releasing the last one. Idk if people will care as much about this one

    • @whatsarefoogee
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      91 year ago

      You can bet your ass it will be heavily moderated.

    • @mrc
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      11 year ago

      I couldn’t have said it better

  • W^Unt!2
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    1291 year ago

    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.

    • stebo
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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

      • @micka190
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        181 year ago

        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).

      • @TheHighRoad
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        141 year ago

        One massive, throbbing, pixelated John Oliver.

      • W^Unt!2
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        31 year ago

        It’s funny how individually we can do the right thing but together is a whole other beast.

    • db2
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      631 year ago

      It’ll probably be a giant “Fuck /u/spez”

        • @IIII
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          121 year ago

          By the sounds of it, the staff at reddit also hate u/spez, so maybe they’ll join in

          • db2
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            91 year ago

            I’ve been sending the other admins messages (not directly obviously) like “he can’t fire all of you”. 😈

      • stebo
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        41 year ago

        then spez will ban every account that contributed to it

  • @Furbag
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    841 year ago

    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.

    • @Hypersapien
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      51 year ago

      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.

  • @[email protected]
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    621 year ago

    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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        61 year ago

        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.

        • @BarrelAgedBoredom
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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

      • @[email protected]
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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.

  • Televise
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    531 year ago

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

    • @linearchaos
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      351 year ago

      I guarantee you they’ve got a flock of admins sitting there with the tool to replace any pixels they want.

        • @Zozano
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          91 year ago

          Yep, and someone got video proving it was one mod placing pixels without delay.

  • samsy
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    501 year ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      231 year ago

      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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      • @[email protected]
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        61 year ago

        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.

    • @[email protected]
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      What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.

      • @Agent641
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        91 year ago

        Can we make a lemmy logo on it?

        • @arden
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          21 year ago

          we have to do this

  • @phoneymouse
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    451 year ago

    Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”

    • @[email protected]
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      251 year ago

      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.

      • @rDrDr
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        81 year ago

        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.

    • @AlEi
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      171 year ago

      And drive traffic to reddit? Nah

    • @astropenguin5
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      81 year ago

      I just created a community for this! Head over to [email protected] of you want to help out with construction when the time comes!

  • @Rooty
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    431 year ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      181 year ago

      It does feel like a lot of people here are more angry about their ex than enjoying their new freedom doesn’t it?

      • samsy
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        41 year ago

        Just complaining to the new relationship.

    • @JargonWagon
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      181 year ago

      Right? Keep this shit to c/reddit.

    • nolannice
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      41 year ago

      It’s the same thing with Elon/Twitter posts on Mastodon, it’s like half the content on there!

  • Bappity
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    351 year ago

    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

  • @rustyfish
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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.

  • @devious
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    251 year ago

    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.

    • @Zozano
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      151 year ago

      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.