• @the_green_bastard
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    981 year ago

    Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      301 year ago

      I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.

      • @kadu
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        371 year ago

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        • @DrMario
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          151 year ago

          Kinda true but we also know that advertisers can be very picky about having their content displayed next to sensitive content or even profanity. So seeing a guillotine and fuck spez written all over Place on Day 1 was pretty cool

        • @[email protected]
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          91 year ago

          This is stupid to me. You really think advertisers look only at the stats and not the content? Having been part of trans who had to decide “who to spend our money on” - the content matters A LOT

          • @kadu
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            41 year ago

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        • @krayj
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          An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spe

          An investment firm executive makes it their business to know everything there is to know about negative press (or anything else that could jeopardize their management of an IPO), which this campaign is generating huge amounts of…

      • Septian
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        111 year ago

        There’s no such thing as bad press. All negative press means is that people are talking about it and that’s engagement.

      • substill
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        51 year ago

        You want to give Reddit bad press? Stop posting links to Lemmy. Start posting links to fetish porn.

        • @[email protected]OP
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          11 year ago

          There are people doing that sorta stuff too if you wanna join them. Some QR codes up there.

      • @[email protected]
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        21 year ago

        What press are we talking about? For shareholders, it’s all about people engaging with Reddit so they can use machine learning to target ads to people. r/place is an experiment in how to encourage that engagement to make more money for shareholders.

        The best way to influence the IPO is not to engage.

      • @Oisteink
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        11 year ago

        Now if you could set up a huge bot-net and make the whole thing an obscene picture it will make impact. But I doubt that’s legal and all so don’t do that. Staying off seems to work for me, but I need some filter to remove that site from links here. It’s not very interesting for me to know what happens there. If it was I’d be there

      • @schmidtster
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        11 year ago

        It’s a more modern type of marketing that could be considered controversial marketing. Gets people talking, and it works unfortunately.

        Here I am engaging with you because of it.

    • @[email protected]
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      01 year ago

      There is no point in trying,You can’t argue with morons. Just let the think they won and maybe they will just go back to reddit.

  • @Dankry
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    351 year ago

    Good luck to anyone doing it but the whole reason I’m on Lemmy is because I refuse to use reddit’s garbage app. I’m not gonna start now.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      -71 year ago

      You can do it on the web. Using the app only for /r/place isn’t so bad. I’d never use it for anything else.

        • @davidgro
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          31 year ago

          On the plus side, having the app installed means every time it updates I can refresh my 1-star review.

          • scytale
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            21 year ago

            Is it available on old.reddit? A lot of people here who refuse to give reddit traffic in the first place also prefer old.reddit and don’t want to use the new interface.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              They aren’t allowing it on old.Reddit. It’s seriously just a plot to drive as much traffic as possible to the versions of the sites that’s been monetized to hell

  • @BroBot9000
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    241 year ago

    I’m going to buy this beer and pour it out in protest…

    I’m going to buy these books and burn them in protest…

    I’m going to log into Reddit and place a stern message on /r/place in protest…

    Do you see the pattern…

  • @LetUsGo
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    181 year ago

    Hate-gagement is still engagement

  • @tox_solid
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    161 year ago

    I think it might be time to move on.

  • @[email protected]
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    honestly can’t be bothered. Let reddit fester, the view is great from here

    edit: but also do what you want! ;)

    • sab
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      51 year ago

      I think it’s understandable that some of the people who spent a lot of time on Reddit over the years want to leave a tiny message as a final goodbye, and this is a great opportunity to do so. Kind of neat really. :)

      I’d consider throwing in a pixel if I had a verified account on there.

  • Sentrovasi
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    131 year ago

    But the whole point of coming here is I didn’t want to use the website and give them engagement.

    I think part of the problem is that when everyone is pulling in different directions, the effect of people like me boycotting using Reddit entirely to try to make some kind of dent in their use statistics basically ends up doing nothing.

    If you’re “defending” your banner, meaning refreshing and adding inputs on a regular basis, you’re providing a ton more engagement, views, and clicks, as well as getting other Reddit users more entrenched in their defense of their stupid website, than any other possible activity you could do on that site. So thanks, I guess.

    The worst case scenario for r/place is a world where everyone just sits in their corner after populating it at the start. Zero stories, boring, people no longer want to engage. What you’re doing? Dramatic gold.

  • @[email protected]
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    91 year ago

    No. Reddit is dead to me.

    You continue to help boost user engagement metrics. Just what the IPO needs.

  • @bassomitron
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    81 year ago

    Remember when Reddit actually had variety in their site wide social “games”/experiments? Remember the button? Or the colors? Or headdit? Now it feels like r/place is their one trick pony and honestly it’s a beaten horse at this point, in my opinion.

      • @Levetamae
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        91 year ago

        Or telling those on Reddit to join Lemmy.

        Do you not know how marketing works?

        • Sentrovasi
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          21 year ago

          The point is that it’s being defended against. That’s the whole point of this post. So your audience are people who are already entrenched against the fediverse, being faced with a Lemmy invasion. And they’re the kinds of people who relish these Reddit activities in the first place.

          Do you think engaging with them in this incredibly superficial way is going to suddenly change their minds?

          Or do you maybe think it might instead reinforce their cognitive biases now that they’ve spent a day and a half “defending” r/place against the militant minority?

        • KingJalopy
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          -21 year ago

          We are already here. Anyone left on Reddit isn’t willing to stop engaging. There was a huge campaign to get everyone over here already and it worked, it’s why I’m here. A tiny banner on a huge canvas looked at by only Reddit diehards won’t change anything. Mho.

          • @Levetamae
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            31 year ago

            Thank goodness it’s just your opinion.