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[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

it is funny but is it true?

Edit: seems true, here is a pic from wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R/place

[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty impressed this occurred so quickly, I wonder if it was bots at all.

Look at the serif on that F, dang.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There were most certainly bots but I'm pretty sure (and I'm speaking from experience since I was there) that there were more than enough real people helping.

Especially the Germans were probably a driving force as usual and then there were the other communities that united on their Discord servers as well, I was part of one that had ~3k members I think (Fuck Spez Coalition 🫡).

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

Germans do like invading things...

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wie die guten alten Zeiten! /s

[–] PropaGandalf@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Jawohl Kamerad!

[–] aeternum@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

And yet, people keep using reddit. Weird.

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

Congratulations on giving Spez exactly what he wanted.

[–] Cylusthevirus@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean, I doubt it's exactly what he wanted. The traffic is nice and all, but it's not like investors don't have eyes. They know he's hated, it's just a question of what that means for the IPO and ongoing profitability of the business.

[–] devious@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Well longer term allowing the community to focus all it's hate on the CEO, rather than the platform (and it's direction e.g. the API and gold changes) allows for an easy PR fix in future - when spez is replaced all the bad press goes away, but all the changes remain intact and forgotten.

[–] Ferk@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Sure, but if the hate was focused on the platform and not on its leadership I doubt there'd be as many reddit users willing to protest.

Anyone who truly cares about the openness of the platform would have already been using a more open alternative by now.

[–] SpeakinTelnet@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

A sudden surge and as sudden drop of users is not what investors want to see prior to an IPO.

They can't even use rage bait as efficiently as the other social media platforms, it's just a bad show through and through.

[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Saw on TikTok the Reddit account posted a cropped timelapse of techno blade. Wonder if it's the only place that fuck spez didn't find it's way into, so they focused on that?

Also they blacklisted the word spez, so no comments can mention his name lmao.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Don't threaten me!

[–] starman@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago
[–] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] atocci@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] ren@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

thanks, haven't been on it so wasn't sure.

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