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.
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.
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.
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.
They don't give a shit if they're getting ad money and gaining more users than they lose.
They already have tools to censor these things in a variety of ways to make it not look totally off, absolute scumbags.
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.
I find that figure extremely hard to believe. Maaaaybe with bots.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1324258/reddit-monthly-active-users/
430 million MAUs as of January 2020. They're probably closer to 600M now. That does include bots but still
I admit to having a very US-centric POV when it comes to this, so I guess I can see it. I was never an /all browser, so my exposure was limited to my subs. Even so, there's no way that many users actually contribute anything of merit.
Yeah most of those users are either 0 value or negative value. But there's still millions of positive contributors that we could siphon to Lemmy
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.