What we really need to do is start writing down all the Lemmy instances. It's one thing to tell off reddit, it's another thing to get people off of reddit.
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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Mod reminder: We do have a rule against brigading. I know this is a special case - but please keep it respectful if you are planning to represent the Fediverse on r/place.
R/place is only remotely possible through the act of brigading
In my opinion, something like "Join Lemmy" is fine, but a giant penis with LEMMY next to it is not as good a look and I'd rather you not coordinate that plan here.
Understood. I'm just requesting we don't make the Fediverse look bad.
Why have a rule against brigading reddit?
I didn't make the rules. I took over as top moderator yesterday. In general, we don't want you to use this community to plan a brigade in a way that would make the Fediverse look bad. I could reword the rule to include that. It hasn't even been an issue until today. It's the first time I've seen it happening in the comments.
I just don't get why anyone would care if we brigade another website, reddit literally brigaded the fucking stock market...
As I've explained elsewhere today, I don't mind if you're using this community to plan a brigade at r/place today that says something like "Join Lemmy" but if you're planning to do something like make a large penis and put "Lemmy" next to it I'd rather you plan that somewhere else. Lemmy.world admins do not want us doing something that makes the Fediverse look bad on Reddit, much less planning it on the site.
Yeah that sounds reasonable.
Thank you for having a respectful conversation with me even though you don't agree with the rules. I will think about rewording that one to be more specific. Today has been very busy for me because of the r/place threads.
Don't overwork yourself.
Part of me doesn't like the fact that this is just giving Reddit engagement.
But another part of me is happy that this is here, even if it'll inevitably get destroyed this is honestly a really sweet gesture.
Gotta love it! I wonder if spez is paying any attention at all. Or better yet if the actual people in charge are.
There's no way they aren't aware of this. But also: what did they expect?
Engagement with the platform to hype up their ipo
Won't help. It's a blip on the radar compared to average daily users. I'll take the bad press any day.
Pretty sure they’re just gambling that this’ll give them a bump in installs/logins with their mobile app that they can use to boost their figures for IPO.
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I think they are leaving some of it up so the spez stans can "come to his defence" and this constant back and forth will generate traffic which is what he would use to convince investors to invest.
I think they realize that trying to prevent the “fuck spez” content is futile, and are instead focusing on blocking stuff that tells people about lemmy and other reddit alternatives. That’s much easier to get away with.
All this is doing is driving up engagement for reddit. If you wanna protest then just stay off reddit. This isn't to say I don't enjoy seeing this, cause it is hilarious, but it's still giving them what they want, engagement.
I don't necessarily agree, if one persons short term engagement results in five people's long term disengagements then it's a net gain and a good investment!
It doesn't hurt to use these opportunities to remind people of the reasons to abandon Reddit (and of course of all the various alternatives that exist).
You make a pretty good argument here, never thought of it this way.
Agreed fully with this comment.
At this rate, it's like shouting against a wall and expect it to melt down by itself -- spez gets a nice sum of money in his pockets each time someone goes to reddit to ~~whine~~ post about him.
I'm skeptical about that because if that was the case, why would they have needed to shake things up in the first place? They just make their profit and users continue using whatever front end they want. Instead they've burned bridges with people who were giving them free labour and have never been profitable.
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Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy
If you’re going to protest, do it in a way that will upset Reddit’s ability to sell ads and stock. Put goatse on there. Drop hateful racism and misogyny. Link to The Flash torrents. Post hentai.
Won't work, the Reddit admins just barge in there and start censoring it. Like the Spez effigy guillotine.
This is beautiful.
It's all engagement for Reddit. They are probably laughing at how gullible people are.
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Proud owner of a pixel that makes up the S at the end.
I guess I'm kind of a big deal
Sadly, the French guillotine is gone now.
RIF RIP 😭
Rip bozo
Wow, in the article it says you can't access it from old reddit. So the new "place" is to pull people back in and see how engaged people are without old reddit. I haven't been on reddit once in the last month. I'd never use reddit without old reddit.
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That's cool to see. Honestly, I haven't been to r/place at all, so I have no idea what's happening there at all. I was only there last year for Technoblade.
What is this? I understand it’s on Reddit, but I’m missing the context. Could somebody please explain it?
Reddit has twice in the past (2017 and 2022, I believe April 1 both times) made r/place - an open canvas where anyone with an account could place a single pixel in a color of their choice every 5 minutes. It's a fascinating social experiment, and was a lot of fun seeing images emerge, and communities spring up around coordinating efforts to make their mark. Doing it again at a somewhat random time only a year after last time is clearly an attempt to distract from the multiple reasons people are currently upset with Reddit, and it also clearly isn't working, judging by the general tenor of anti-spez (Reddit CEO's username) sentiment
Great, I understand now, thank you for explanation.
Several years ago for April Fools Day, Reddit launched /r/place, which created a canvas where users could place individual pixels every few minutes. Communities would get together to carve out their own little corner of the canvas for a piece of art, and overall the whole thing was pretty well received.
Last year for April Fools Day, they did it again. Overall, once again pretty well received.
Now, since Reddit has pissed everyone off, they're doing it again again, likely in a desperate move to try and generate some positive community interactions. /r/place has always been pretty popular when they've done it before, so this is probably a 'push in case of emergency' attempt to placate users. Predictably, everyone's still mad so they've littered the whole canvas with 'fuck spez' posts.
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Here’s a good article about it from The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/19/23800309/reddit-r-place-2023-protest
Newer article about how the crap has very much hit the fan with r/place: https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/20/23801716/reddits-r-place-protest-art
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