If it wouldn’t direct traffic to Reddit I would suggest we create a team and map to make the whole place just a simple “FUCK /U/SPEZ”
this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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I'm quite certain there are already people planning to do just that.
That is absolutely going to happen. I suspect there will be a ton of Apollo and other 3rd party app logos too.
Yep, this discord server just dropped this template with this detailed docs
Lmao I bet they are going to follow up by manipulating their own thing and pretend that the are a lot of dedicated pro Reddit users rather than just being left with the users that just accept things even if they are shit.
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Don't say "fuck u/spez," say "join Lemmy." The advertising worked out great for r/fuckcars last time.
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The last r/place was already heavily monitored by moderators with the ability to place pixels without timers, indiscriminately ban anyone thought to be placing pixels in certain locations from participating, and bury discussions talking about either.
Not sure if they'd bother for this, I'd say it's 50/50 that any attempts to protest will be blacked out and the threads about them buried and/or isolated.
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Watch people build a graveyard of dead 3rd party apps, which gets wiped every so often by admins.
Which then gets covered up by a vague drawing that oscillates between a middle finger and a pixelated penis.
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Oh they are desperate for engagement.
They're emptying the closet for anything they can release right now to save face and their precious valuation
Alright who wants to bet how big the percentage of bots will be this year. Maybe 95%?
My money is on backend overrides of anti-spez collaborations.
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I'm not going back to Reddit.
I'm ESPECIALLY not going back to see u/chtorr and other admins cheat on r/place just because they don't like what someone else did with their master plan for it.
I hope it's covered in protest-themed art they can't erase fast enough. At least that way I'll get a good laugh out of it.
I forgot they were actively blanking out things they didn't like. What was that cat mascot they were butthurt about?
It boosts traffic during a time a lot of ex-redditors scraped/nuked worthwile content and left. If people are annoyed and want to show that off, but they can only change a single pixel every-so-often, then they will refresh / check the site VERY often to make sure their hard-earned single-pixel contribution isn't overwritten by someone else.
I wouldn't be surprised if that was one of the reasons, trying to profit from the agitated masses somehow.
But r/place is ruled by bots... I bet the kind of people who develop bots are reeeeaaaly pleased about the API changes...
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Yeah honestly it's pretty appealing of an idea to go back just to make a mess on the canvas or send a coordinated message, but - and I know most won't do this - the best strategy is to just...not engage. Avoid participating, avoid going to check the canvas or the site... just pretend it isn't happening.
Sadly, it's pretty much a fact that this will bring back tons of traffic, even if the event itself results in popcorn-worthy drama. Spez seems to be subscribed to the notion that any kind of publicity is good publicity, and it might just work out for him and his IPO.
At this point, the best that we can do is just care for our mental health and let things be. It's what I plan on doing, and I can't put "sticking it to reddit" as a priority while doing so, it's for me and for me alone.
This sounds desperate. Like, their monthly traffic stats must be bad and they recognize that r/place drove traffic and this will hide the dip in traffic.
I was there in 2017. It was glorious. I refused to participate in 2022. It was a cheap imitation. I won't even give it an ounce of thought in 2023. It's a disappointment.
Swap your first date with 2010 and that's the Reddit experience in a nutshell, lol.
We're bringing back something many of you actually asked us for.
The fucking nerve of them lol
Reject r/place. Embrace pxls space
I love projects like this, but I wish we could recapture the limited nature of place along with the sheer amount of engagement. I have no idea how it would work, but I'd love to see large scale limited time events like this take place with instance administrator support and integration into the fediverse somehow.
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r/Place was insanely popular... Popular enough that people bitched for a few years before they brought it back. Now Reddit's in the corner and they're trying to bring r/Place back. On one hand I'm very curious how it'll turn out this year. On the other, I won't be doing anything to it because I really don't care for Reddit to use the community's art as a reason for them to generate more traffic and more profit.
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How long until people employ bots to create burner accounts and deface r/place.
I'm expecting tonnes of "fuck Spez" graffiti, along with some NSFW stuff.
"sunsetting" is such an ugly euphemism for "killing". On the other hand, I am sunsetting Reddit right now. Deleted all my posts and comments, left all the subreddits apart from the drama ones to keep informed about the latest Reddit Inc fuckups. I have a feeling they are not done alienating their userbase yet.
I get all my news about reddit inc fuckups from the fediverse now.
The only good news may be that the change to the pixelated logo is probably temporary, to hype /r/place . But making that change at the same time as unlocking premium logos was an extremely bad decision. They are very good at making bad decisions, though.
This is hilarious, it's going to get the shit griefed out of it.
I will leave that r/Place completely alone and not even look at it. I am close to 5 weeks sober from Reddit and nothing that will happen there will bring me back. The best thing that can happen is no one participating, not even a f*ck spez picture, just an empty white page, not even Canada trying to get their flag on it.
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I thought r/place turned into BattleBots guarding their own pixels at the end, and you can get banned for placing the wrong pixel at the wrong place.
Maybe they are using this to bait out and ban any old accounts that will try to vandalize r/place before the IPO? The timing is very suspect, I don't think it's as simple as increasing user engagement.
I have a Place for Reddit,
in my toilet
They aren't stupid. They are absolutely counting on the engagement from people flooding back to turn the whole thing into a giant Fuck Spez canvas. That's the only reason they're bringing it back, guaranteed.
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