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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.

!place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world

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[–] HipPriest@kbin.social 150 points 1 year ago

I'd be hugely surprised if this isn't full of 'this sub is restricted' 'this sub is NSFW' 'fuck u/spez', John Oliver pics, Lemmy, Kbin, Apollo and all the other 3rd party app logos...

So much iconography to choose from. The admins will be all over it trying to censor it

[–] strepto@kbin.social 127 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Why on Earth would they run r/place not only in the middle of July but right in the middle of a massive fight with their user base?

[–] teolan@lemmy.world 177 points 1 year ago (2 children)

To boost the active users numbers

[–] sicjoke@lemmy.world 82 points 1 year ago (4 children)

And based on everyone’s excitement to participate seems like their plan is working.

[–] matt@lemmy.world 49 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed... Feels like everyone is falling for this hook, line, and sinker.

The goal is to get people back on Reddit, doesn't matter what you're doing. For how many people are still on Reddit complaining, it clearly doesn't matter that much to people.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (10 children)

99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place... this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the whole thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now

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[–] Savirius@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which raises the question: if the point is to raise the number of active users for July, what do they plan on doing for August? Like, a slow descent from June to July to August wouldn't look great to a potential investor, but surely a steady increase to July followed by a sheer cliffface down to August would look even worse right??

[–] PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Shhh. Neoliberism doesn't worry about the future, neoliberism is only interest in the profits that can be had today. Questions like "what will we do next month?" or "what if our greed makes the earth inhospitable to life?" are not welcome.

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[–] TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 102 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The reason they are bringing back r/place right now is obvious. They are luring people like OP back in so they can say, "Look at how high our engagement is even after the API changes" then push forward their IPO. This post is exactly what Spez wants.

[–] nanoUFO@sh.itjust.works 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spez likely doesn't want an alternative that is doing well being advertised on r/place, I wouldn't be surprised if admins didn't do some sussy deleting like they have before.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

It likely also won't look good that the picture is covered in "FUCK SPEZ" everywhere.

Unfortunately the admins will be able to replace any pixels they don't like.

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[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

Also I hate to say this but you've got like 25 comments and I've got nearly 900. And I'm being lured back in to reddit? I never left, I've been shilling Lemmy this whole time.

And because Lemmy is so much better, that's genuinely all I want to do when I'm on reddit.

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[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago

Reddit isn't going to die because a few thousand users decide to stop using it. It will die if we build a quality alternative and bring users over while reddit's quality goes to shit.

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 80 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You son of a bitch, I’m in.

[–] DangerousDetlef@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

👉😏👉

[–] FredericChopin_@feddit.uk 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I won’t be participating, I vowed to never Grace Reddit when Apollo shut down, but I support the cause.

[–] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Exactly. There are redditors planning on protesting on r/place. There are discords dedicated to it. Fediverse users should not participate. Especially those who left because of the recent changes. All we’ll do is boost Reddits numbers.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster 18 points 1 year ago (15 children)

On the other hand we could get a few more borderline leaving reddit users here... IDK, IMO it's worth a shot.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 73 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Let’s change a few “r/...”s to “c/...”s for existing Lemmy communities.

I post with c/ even on reddit, lol 😂.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 year ago

Love this idea

[–] randint@feddit.nl 65 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I don't think the average Joe understands the words "decentralized content aggregator." It would scare them away. How about replacing it with layman's terms, like "the better reddit"?

[–] Licherally@lemmy.ml 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"it's like reddit but there's no Spez"

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[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I agree, but this is not the design we are using. In fact, we currently have no design. We will likely need to leverage alliances to get anything done, because we don't have enough people here to secure our own space.

Maybe the Netherlands or Germany places would lend us some space to create something. This one was nice to see

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[–] MomoTimeToDie@sh.itjust.works 60 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I mean admins will just delete it like every other time someone they don't like attempts to participate in r/place

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[–] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My input for anyone on board for this is to start with the Lemmy logo. Put it everywhere, subtle and varied like the among us characters had been done before. Then, quickly, put one bold one and focus on getting the word Lemmy next to it. If the moderators don't immediately squash that, go on to the other words you have laid out here.

Alternatively, put the smallest readable size of the word Lemmy.com all over Place.

[–] tristar@lemmyfly.org 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] VentraSqwal@links.dartboard.social 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen these happen every year but have never actually participated. But this feels like a worthy cause.

[–] Risk@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Then you missed out on the controversy of the admins changing stuff they didn't like in the past then!

This will be no different.

[–] JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But at least it was controversial. Maybe they'll streisand effect us more into public consciousness

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[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

I participated a little bit, these felt like they were the best of these sort of "events". If we do this I'll definitely come click a few times to help the lemmy banner.

[–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you are thinking of doing this, I am begging you to stop and spend that time contributing to lemmy instead. 10,000 users will be a drop in the bucket for r/place, but 10,000 extra comments or posts could be the difference between the whole site surviving or not.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Post in c/place > get redditors to make an account > gain users > eventually gain 10,000 extra comments and posts after a bit of time.

The site won't survive if it doesn't grow. In order to make it grow, sometimes we have to leave the site and tell other people that it exists.

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[–] bignuts700@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

probably will just be streamers owning the whole thing again

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[–] Froody@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh yeah, give them traffic. So smort.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 58 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

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.

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[–] kmkz_ninja@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Use the tools your enemy provides.

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

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[–] gunnm@monero.town 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I also think LARPers and Reddit has been demonizing the word decentralized, better stick with just Lemmy.

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[–] ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (4 children)
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[–] 520@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago

I'm game. This'll be fun lol

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