this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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Totally not suspicious timing at all.

Also if you're willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They're not fooling anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It doesn’t matter because even if it ends up with the greatest fuck spez message ever it’s still engagement on the site and that’s what they’re looking for.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If the "engagement" consists of people seeing advertisements for alternatives to Reddit and reasons why they should be trying them out, I'm fine with spez thinking he's "won" somehow because a line briefly went up.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let’s be real. /r/place is a good time. It’s going to keep people interested in Reddit and not the tiny corner that’s fighting with Reddit bootlickers to make a Lemmy space.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you read the comments on the thread announcing /r/place? It's going to keep people interested in Reddit's fuckups. Those are going to be plastered all over it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I like Lemmy, it’s much more mellow and the discussions are much better. I’ve given up on Reddit personally. But sometimes people here have a crazy idea in their heads that Reddit is actually going to suffer and lose people and Lemmy is going to take them all in. I don’t think the majority of Reddit is going anywhere even with their fuckups

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

The majority doesn't have to go anywhere. Just the most engaged people (the ones who will be visiting /r/place, for example) who provide the value that keeps the other ones visiting and viewing ads. Once they're the only ones left the site will be basically a zombie.

It takes time for giants to fall. Digg is still around to this day, and Reddit will likely be around a decade from now too. It just won't be the "front page of the Internet" any more.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The biggest fuck you that can be sent is the thing staying completely empty

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

won't happen though, so we may as well twist it to our use

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The last one was great for the fuck cars movement; this one easily has the potential to be similarly good for the threadiverse even despite any Reddit engagement it entails in the short run.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ah /fuckcars. The /atheism of environmental causes