What could go wrong?

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.

    • Zozano@lemmy.worldEnglish
      11·
      2 years 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.

  • samsy@feddit.deEnglish
    11·
    2 years 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.

    • HurlingDurling@lemm.eeEnglish
      2·
      2 years 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

      • GoodEye8@lemm.eeEnglish
        6·
        2 years 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.

    • ojmcelderry@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      What better way to create the image of a thriving userbase, than for your userbase to literally create the image.

  • Gnome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won’t participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I’m happy to be here with y’all.

    • qooqie@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        2 years ago

        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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        2 years ago

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

        • graphite@lemmy.worldEnglish
          01·
          2 years ago

          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.

      • Usernameblankface@lemmy.worldEnglish
        7·
        2 years ago

        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.

  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    2 years ago

    Is there a way to see what’s happening to r/place without actually going to reddit? (like a stream or something.) I don’t want to give them the traffic.

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 years 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      01·
      2 years 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.

  • Televise@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

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

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    2 years ago

    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.

  • W^Unt!2@waveform.socialEnglish
    4·
    2 years 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@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3·
      2 years ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years 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).

  • Conowelle@lemmy.caEnglish
    3·
    2 years 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

      • Conowelle@lemmy.caEnglish
        1·
        2 years 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.

    • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      5·
      2 years 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 years 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”.