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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Users are already planning protest art. I personally wouldn't encourage people to join because it's more traffic for Reddit, but that's just me.

On other news, apparently requesting a subreddit now requires a 28d old account with 100+ karma.

EDIT: it's on again, since 20min ago:

The only two recognisable things are the "fuck spez" and nationalists spamming some government flag.

EDIT 2: better view:

I think that the meaning of the sentence in German up there should be rather obvious. It's on-topic.

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Is that the pixel art thing?

...how much of it will just be "fuck u/spez"?

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is that the pixel art thing?

Yup.

…how much of it will just be “fuck u/spez”?

No idea - the ones who were pissed the most left. But hopefully quite a bit.

[–] gravitas_deficiency 3 points 1 year ago

I think some enterprising souls may come back just to coordinate on making /r/place an advertisement for how shitty Reddit is being, as well as increasing awareness of alternatives like lemmy. And I think that’s great.

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

I suggest, make an art about Spez getting gangbanged by investors and the admins and power tripping mods getting cucked

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

Since they're banking on streamers once again competing with eachother, they're expecting almost none.

Although depending on if/who gets involved there might be a lot.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Fuck it let's make c/place, there must be some talented programmers here. We can make a better version

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

Probably looking to increase engagement so the market is more favorable during valuation.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Just make every pixel black.

Man I wish I had the reach to actually make that happen

[–] Minish 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a discord group called The Swarm that plans on doing that with 1,000 people. They also allied themselves with another group to put a protest message in the middle of it.

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

Link to the discord group? I still have a throwaway account over on RedditI used for a single post a few years back

[–] Minish 1 points 1 year ago

Sorry for the late response. The swarm lost their protest stuff but one of the main protest signs still kicking runs outa here https://discord.gg/4sKvzQJpNZ

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

I'm torn about r/place revival. I'm excited to see how people embarrass reddit management, but it feels like management is allowing it cause they know it will drive up daily active users they can brag about before the stock goes public.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Probably the best protest, because it's something moderators CAN'T fix

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

So reddit becoming very desperate now, Fuck u/spez and those greedy assholes, using the internet tradition for the sake of the money.

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

Quick we need something fun!

There's a meme about angry boss throwing guy out window here.

Boss: We need ways to smooth over relations.

1: Write a non-apology apology.

2: Host r/place.

3: Don't be a dick in the first place.

[Thrown]

Feel free to make it.

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

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

Lol I like it (though I'd include mods with users) feel free to post it.

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

Like this?

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

Something like that, I'd say "don't be a dick to the users and mods in the first place". If you can Photoshop, put spez's face on the boss.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm having more fun with this than I should.

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

Looks good, make a separate post for it! Final correction it's not "on first place", it's "in the first place"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Done.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What's the over/under on how many "fuck /u/spez" there will be in the final piece?

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

My guess is that at least 10% of the canvas area will be "fuck u/spez".

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

I remember at least one employee was caught cheating the last time.

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

Wasn't it spez himself?

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

Desperate.

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

They would need jet turbine-loud hearing aids with how tone deaf they are

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

Reddit's equivalent of a Pizza party.

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