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.
Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?
My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.
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!”
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.
So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant “fuck /u/spez” ?
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!”
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.
Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second…
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.
Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”
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.
“Use Lemmy” works for me
This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.
Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.
And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.
Someone who knows how needs to save a copy of whatever gets posted often.
