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Totally not suspicious timing at all.

Also if you're willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They're not fooling anyone.

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[–] [email protected] 283 points 1 year ago (7 children)

I'm personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven't been on since the protests were announced.

Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I'm gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.

[–] [email protected] 56 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Yeah, I've regained probably an hour of my life after giving that place up.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago

Lemmy is my new ~~addiction~~ friend!

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I gained atleast an hour every day after leaving Reddit. I Read lots of ebooks again and enjoying my time on lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I blackholed reddit.com and all sub domains in DNS since the protests started, not looked back.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I did the same thing! It was pretty astonishing how many times I tried to go back there.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago (6 children)

This makes me sick honestly. r/place is one of the nicest memories I have of Reddit and now they’re using it as a cheap tactic to bait us to come back. Really a low blow.

[–] [email protected] 91 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm betting it's going to be either overrun with protest content and Lemmy advertisement, or it'll be so heavily locked down and curated that it'll be an obvious shell of its former self.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

I’m going with both. It will be a free for all at first with a ton of protest stuff and after a day (maybe less) they will realize “oh shit we forgot this was the internet” and then lock it down.

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

It doesn’t matter because even if it ends up with the greatest fuck spez message ever it’s still engagement on the site and that’s what they’re looking for.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (4 children)

If the "engagement" consists of people seeing advertisements for alternatives to Reddit and reasons why they should be trying them out, I'm fine with spez thinking he's "won" somehow because a line briefly went up.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Corporations don't care about you or your nice memories, unless they can monetise that somehow. Something to keep in mind. It'll be reddit trying to abuse us today, and some other business in the future if we let them.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I know that, sadly. Doesn’t stop me from feeling disgusted by it.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I feel like it’s a thing you really can do only once. Just like Twitch plays Pokémon. It’s super exciting when no one knows what’s the outcome. People try to figure it out in real time.

But the second time you already know what’s going to happen. People have already figured it out. Subs had already worked out plans before it even started.

Any attempt at replicating it becomes stale in comparison.

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[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (6 children)

Someone's already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)

edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN

[–] [email protected] 121 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.

What fresh hell is this

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I almost can't believe it. Now they're just like Twitter, gotta log in to view the shit you want.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Man spez really can’t stop copying Elon. It’s sad really

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

Spez and Elon sitting in a tree, ruining the internet entirely.

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

They didn't "review" subs when there was one using images of children as child pornography, without the subjects knowledge or consent.

They didn't "review" subs when mask-off, far-right extremists moved in and started trading slurs and writing murder fantasies.

They didn't "review" subs when reactionaries were spreading dangerous and clearly false medical misinformation in the middle of a pandemic.

But they'll review subs when those subs might be a threat to their revenue.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Old.Reddit doesn’t have that problem though I’m sure they’re working on it

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago

When old.reddit finally goes away is when I will finally stop even the minimal remaining interaction I have with that site.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I wouldn’t put it past the admins to actively try to remove protests on r/place

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[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago (4 children)

They want to give their rebelling and unhappy user base a giant digital dry erase board to graffiti and express themselves? That will go great!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I want to see the entire board just say "fuck u/spez!" with a giant middle finger...

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

Especially when they start censoring any mention of the API changes or the blackout

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[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (2 children)

We gonna take it over and continue the message of fuck u/spez?

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We'll certainly try. If nothing else make them regret using it as a distraction

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But you are back on Reddit in the meantime, and they know that even small engagements are what start to bring people back. It’s like smoking cigarettes, it only takes a few to fall back into the habit. Suddenly your popping by your old favorite communities to check in on things and blah blah blah slippery slope.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Flood it with bots, each managing one pixel to collectively spell out "fuck u/spez"

[–] [email protected] 55 points 1 year ago (6 children)

We need to put a giant “join Lemmy” sign and /or a giant “API” sign to piss them off

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (5 children)

I'm definitely going to be helping out with a join lemmy banner somewhere

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ah, reddit comment bots. Now with...Boomhauer?

For nobody wondering, I'm gonna go with lolno. Moving away from reddit means I'm moving away from reddit, not screaming profanities on their front lawn at 3am like a drunken ex trying to prove how much I don't need them.

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[–] [email protected] 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Call me boring if you want but this was already overdone and annoying by the second time they did it. Not looking forward to dumb screenshots of hard to understand pixel drama taking over everything again, it will probably be posted all over lemmy too...

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[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

let's start our own c/place, with blackjack and hookers!

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And my shiny metal ass!

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Time to make as many Lemmy references as possible on that canvas. Hidden, overt, just everywhere

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago

Totally not suspicious timing at all.

I like how they included June 23 in their animation, like they'd been planning to do it for reddit's Very Special 18th birthday and just accidently overshot, instead of "they're foundering and are desperately trying to drive traffic to the site back up so they can tell the advertisers and the investors that traffic and engagement is back up" - without telling them exactly what they did to try to drive traffic back up.

Current view seems to be a great big "API" on the screen, but I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to either skew the accounts (admin accounts can change colors as much as they want!) or do something annoying like arranging for xQc and his little cult to grief the board again (which probably wouldn't take much beyond someone telling him that he was welcome to do so).

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really a new thing for them, they've been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can not wait for the biggest "fuck u/spez" ever 🤣

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

Holy hell they are so desperate it's just sad.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Lmfao the past few weeks have legit looked like a corpse flailing on the ground, it's nervous system pumping out every desperate attempt at reviving the body.

But make no mistake, the body is dead.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The whole point of r/Place was to happen only so occasionally. I really got hyped for the second one, because I was too late for the first one. It happening every year would kill the hype for me. So thanks, I’ll pass and stay logged out.

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

Quick, someone figure out a way to write 'Fuck u/spez' without increasing site traffic!

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

This is ridiculous

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

I didn't touch it last time when they made it exclusive to the new site design. Definitely not touching it after everything else.

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

I'm not gonna use reddit ever again, but I can't wait for the shitshow lmao

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

Wow, remember when they did something different every April first

Also, this isn't going to keep us distracted - this is an effort to keep the userbase alive - by continually running events and keeping controversy fresh, they can get people's curiosity to get the best of themselves and make the number of active users spike.

My guess is they potentially go public during one of these spikes

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