Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
This seems like a bad idea...
Aside from giving them traffic, which i'm pretty sure is one of the major goals of r/place...
how much are you banking on people actually seeing it, let alone caring about it?
I mean they could even just mod-erase the spot couldn't they?
I'm just saying it's a lot of traffic for them that doesn't seem like it'd actually be of any benefit to anyone but Reddit.
Reddit has over 500 million monthly users. If we got 100,000 Lemmings to go over there, that would give them 0.02% more traffic. For one week. And realistically, it would be a miracle if even 10,000 of you fine folk participated in this plan.
I don't know how many people will see it, I don't know if they will eventually erase it, but either way, it's better than doing nothing.
Again, there's a very good chance the mods will delete it, and part of the whole point is to not bring them back traffic. Because that's the point of the r/places event.
So I really don't think it's actually better than doing nothing.
Let's put it this way, the realistic number goes both ways, the people who would be working on the spot, and the people who might check it.
The mods just flat out removing it is an additional factor against the project.
How does a 0.02% increase in traffic for one week benefit reddit? Are you familiar with their metrics and how investors judge their performance? Until you can support your baseless assertion that Lemmings using reddit will notably alter their overall activity, your argument is DOA.
btw I have to select English to respond to your comments
I see no way to change that from kbin
It's .02% on top of people who didn't leave, and again: For something that will probably be mod-swept.
Why are you pushing so hard to make people go back for that?
Like there's various ways you can take those same numbers and put them against the attempt, but the biggest factor is just the fact that Reddit already moderates against threads. So of course they will moderate against lemmy. So you're practically giving them traffic for nothing at all.
That's precisely why it's so mind bogglingly insignificant.
I'm not pushing hard for people to go back, you're pushing for people to not go back. I never told you that you should go back, it's absolutely fine that you don't.
You're the one who started this thread by saying it's a bad idea for people to go back. I explained why the traffic is insignificant, so it's not a bad idea. Im not pushing for anyone to do anything they don't want to, I'm simply pointing out that it's possible to go back and help Lemmy and hurt Reddit.
This nonsense take around here that we can never visit reddit is ironically the best possible strategy to slow the growth of Lemmy, because the vast majority of people who would be interested in Lemmy are currently on reddit.
That's all I got for you, I'll see you around.