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apes together strong (feddit.de)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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[–] 140 points 3 years ago (7 children)

Apes together still giving Reddit traffic.

It's like writing anti-walmart propaganda on a thousand one dollar bills and then spending them all at Walmart.

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  • [–] 57 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

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  • [–] 52 points 3 years ago*

    Sorry if I'm misinterpreting your comment, but that's usually in reference to people who expect you to make unilateral sacrifices as protest. Foregoing r/place isn't a sacrifice like foregoing a smartphone entirely is; the whole point either way (deface/ignore) is just to send a message.

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  • [–] 32 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'm sorry, I missed the part where Reddit is a integral and necessary part of modern life.

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  • [–] 13 points 3 years ago

    Reddit isn't but the internet is. The internet has been getting shittier the past year and people feel it. How many times do you append reddit at the end of your google searches? How many times does google send you reddit search results?

    Reddit is a remnant of the internet before it got centralized and capitalism fucked it up. Yes, we are federated but a majority won't be switching for a long time. I think there is validity in defacing /r/place as it brings awareness and documents the shitty things the admins are doing. That is very powerful and easy to point and show others what is happening.

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  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    I didn't say it was?

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  • [–] 24 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    That's what that meme you mentioned is usually referencing...when somebody criticizes a thing they depend on.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    yeah but in this context it isn't. I'm just saying, if people want to protest the site's changes, it's better for them to protest within the site itself rather going somewhere else and disturbing people there.

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  • [–] 53 points 3 years ago

    meh. I'm not interested in participating, but for a short uptick in user activity, a bunch of tech journals will be writing about this and they'll come up is searches about /r/place for years to come. It will be a net lose for spez.

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Tiny, insignificant amount of traffic to send a lasting messagem. Worth it.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Looks like a shitload of people accessing it several times a day, some watching it like hawks, and an entire genre of Reddit refugees who've taken to advertising it on a daily basis.

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    :NOWAY: Not the 400 people advertising Lemmy vs the at least 30 million Bots and the few million Reddit users.

    Look at this and tell me we are a statistic.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    This. It's honestly hilarious people keep parroting that "that's still engagement" BS like we're a force to be reckoned with compared to reddit.

    It's like getting $10 from Musk and thinking its6gonna hurt him in a significant way. Lmao.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I mean, poking in and scrolling your old favorite sub for 10 minutes 3 times a day is still substantially less traffic then constantly bumming around on r/all all day

    Besides, with the sheer number of reddit users not even including the tens of thousands of bots, the site traffic generated by Lemmy users is probably so small it makes no difference at all

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    yeah but lowkey how funny would it be if that was the final r/place image they've gotta solidify in history

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Have they actually been censoring it? I keep hearing that the fuck Spez stuff is being deleted but Idk if they're doing it or it's just getting overwritten lol

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