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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.

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[-] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 300 points 1 year ago

So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant "fuck /u/spez" ?

[-] whileloop@lemmy.world 149 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Its enough to make me log into Reddit again. Wait a second...

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 79 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[-] jaamesbaxterr@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

We shall eagerly await your report. Lol

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[-] qooqie@lemmy.world 128 points 1 year 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.world 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

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[-] dreadedsemi@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Geek_King@lemmy.world 219 points 1 year ago

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@lemmy.world 115 points 1 year ago

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

[-] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 65 points 1 year ago

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

[-] AaAaaaAaAA@aussie.zone 26 points 1 year ago

So that's what he's calling it these days

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[-] jackiechan@lemm.ee 12 points 1 year ago
[-] stinky613@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago

Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham's idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit

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[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 29 points 1 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.

[-] GCostanzaStepOnMe@feddit.de 11 points 1 year ago

Place was always very popular, it makes sense to roll it out whenever publicity tanks.

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[-] BrooklynMan@lemmy.ml 86 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[-] db2@lemmy.one 62 points 1 year ago

It'll probably be a giant "Fuck /u/spez"

[-] CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago

Nah it will be covered up by the admin brigade and cause more Trubble for reddit.

[-] IIII@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

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[-] Furbag@lemmy.world 82 points 1 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.

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[-] Conowelle@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 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

[-] AndreTelevise@lemmy.world 52 points 1 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@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago

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

[-] at_an_angle@lemmy.one 17 points 1 year ago

Didn't that happen last time?

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[-] samsy@feddit.de 50 points 1 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.

[-] HurlingDurling@lemm.ee 23 points 1 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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[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 45 points 1 year ago

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

[-] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 25 points 1 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.

[-] phoneymouse@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

“Use Lemmy” works for me

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[-] AlEi@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago

And drive traffic to reddit? Nah

[-] Patariki@feddit.nl 12 points 1 year ago

Lemmy show you the way.

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[-] Rooty@lemmy.world 43 points 1 year ago

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

[-] JargonWagon@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago

Right? Keep this shit to c/reddit.

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[-] bappity@lemmy.world 35 points 1 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@lemmy.world 31 points 1 year 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.

[-] devious@lemmy.world 25 points 1 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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[-] tram1@programming.dev 25 points 1 year ago

Maybe we should write lemmy somewhere...

[-] Zozano@lemmy.world 15 points 1 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.

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[-] ForeverAGnome@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year 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.

[-] FuglyDuck@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?

Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time

[-] TechieJosh@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

It is impressive the lengths that Reddit will reach to ignore their protesting users. They make one tone-deaf decision after another. r/Place should be quite entertaining.

[-] Rolando@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year 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.

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[-] Tibert@compuverse.uk 11 points 1 year ago

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.

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[-] mojo@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Admins will watching it and nuking giant spots every few minutes like they did last time, when they didn't consider it advertiser or IPO friendly enough.

[-] digdilem@feddit.uk 10 points 1 year ago

That's a whole lot of "fuck spez". Well done, strangers.

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