All the protests will do nothing but drive traffic. Best response is no response.
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I think you're right that the best response is no response, but the protests do have an effect beside driving traffic. Investors won't want to be involved in a company at war with its userbase, so if protests are loud and long enough it could mess us reddits IPO plans. So for the users who just aren't ready to give up reddit, spamming protest comments is probably their best bet.
There's no such thing as bad engagement.
Especially when an IPO is coming, because the first thing they do is get a fall guy, then blame all the bad actions on them and the old CEO.
"New reddit" then comes in and plays the good guy
Agreed. The people who are pitching r/place as "entertainment" are people who want to stay engaged with reddit and enjoy drama. I'm done with Reddit now that they've killed Apollo and don't care to hear about it anymore.
Yep is anyone is still a user logging in anyway then may as well.do.this...but to log.in especially for it, when you otherwise would not have logged a Reddit hit will give spez what he wants
And if people DO start being problematic, reddit mods will just start erasing things by hand. They were spotted doing it last year.
Honestly, the correct way to protest would be to just spam KBIN and Lemmy everywhere in /r/place.
I wish I remembered the username. One admin was deleting stuff on r/place, placing pixels without cooldown and then deleting posts that mentioned him.
I do declare that you’re probably talking about this
https://lemmy.world/comment/1478863
TLDR; u/Chtorrr
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If we can drive traffic away from Reddit afterwards then isn't that a better response?
All the protests will do nothing but drive traffic.
Which is the EXACT reason they're doing it again all of sudden. This was not scheduled by any means but the dumpster fire for the past weeks causes them to grasp for straws. It's a pathetic attempt to get users back that their psychopathic methods drove away.
Yup. The whole premise of a social media platform is to stay relevant. Ignoring it altogether is the best method to kill it off.
Is there somewhere I can watch it without giving Reddit any traffic, I wonder?
Right here I reckon. Reddit is pretty well covered here.
Well heck, looks like I’m in the right place.
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The first one was beautiful. The second one was ruined by censorship. The third is pure desperation, its not even April 1st.
The third is pure desperation, its not even April 1st.
The whole platform became a joke though, so there's that.
That’s what I was thinking, they must be hurting to do r/place out of the blue like this
Got to get those engagement numbers back up for the future share holders. I like to think the code was kept in a little glass box that says exodus use only.
I forgot about the censorship that was horrible
I didn't participate in the second one. What kinds of censorship happened?
An admin was caught editing pixels without cooldown to draw over several communities' art. Iirc, it was mainly to overwrite NSFW art. When people noticed, the comments that mentioned it got deleted
I believe many of those people got banned, too.
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I’m pretty sure the second one was where we did the iconic “he laughed” panel from One Piece - so not a total loss IMO.
How long before Reddit staff start editing pixels to remove anything "inappropriate"?
Didn't they do that last time? I recall entire sections instantly reset when porn was being constructed.
They did and it was visible, since the admin account name would be on those pixels.
Probably 3 minutes, tops, in a neutral setting, but every reddit employee and pro-dumbass mod knows that's the first thing anyone is going to do, so they'll be up all night alongside their bots, cheating and shadowbanning like last time. Not that I'm naming names, Chtorr.
No way under god will they allow the kinds of things users are about to depict happening to spez
Can almost guarantee as soon as the admins see something close to being API related being created they'll remove it
I bet they have some bots around to replace anything bad. There were some brief NSFW stuff last time they did this that got overwritten really really quick and suddenly.
They have moderators that can remove anything.
- White background
*Text in black: FUCK SPEZ GO LEMMY
Full screen. Would be hilarious 😂
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Is there going to be any push to put the fediverse logo up? Anti-Reddit stuff might be removed, but that has a better chance of sticking around.
Best to just ignore.it. they are doing this to cause engagement numbers to go.up. the best protest is a damp.squib of indifference
"I don't hate you....that requires you to enter my mind...I just do not think about you at all"
If you log on even to vandalise, it counts as a logon for this quarters metrics
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I remember the 1st one it was magic! Second one was ok but censorship and bots killed it
3rd one? I dunno I quit Reddit last month after 13 years...
I'm sure it'll be 98.6% bots
reddit will set up their own bot to cover up any "fuck u/spez" that appears
Looks like they are just baiting users to the site to get some traffic. Given how the user base is still pretty annoyed with Reddit I can’t imagine this is going to go well for Reddit.
They're expecting it to show up and as much as I want to see this trash fire, i'm not gonna.
r/spaces was dead as soon as the first one ended. Whether you feel indifferent about what happened the past couple of weeks or Reddit as a whole, or simply despise Spez. You'll be disappointed either way. They will censor the crap out of it.
Gotta admit, it is tempting, but also I don't use Reddit anymore.
Would something like r/Place be possible on fediverse? I mean, realistically possible, not possible.
I don’t really see a need for it to be integrated and federated. Someone can just make a normal website and post a link.
So they are just bleeding r/place dry? Shouldn’t it just be an April fools thing?
Panem et circenses to calm the masses and also to improve search results for the term 'reddit'.
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That’s a no from me, dawg
Oh, that’s where the new app icon is from! I guess that makes sense. Shame it happened after I stopped contributing.
It sounds like they’d been wanting to do this since April but it kept getting delayed 🤷♂️ my assumption of desperation was premature
Meh. I won't grace Reddit with my traffic
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