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[–] [email protected] 169 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's no way the guillotine went away naturally.

[–] PunchingBag 106 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Which is the point of all of this. They've been flexing their ability to control the flow of information on their site to show off for investors since the minute they announced the API changes. They're going to use Place to further demonstrate the level of control they have over the userbase by "shutting down the protests." Advertisers and investors are going to be eating this up, especially since so many people are still engaging and giving hate-clicks along the way. Imagine how attractive a completely pliable and obedient userbase of literal millions of progressive swing voters is going to look.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah, they just want to boost traffic and engagement, so that Reddit looks good to investors.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I notice they've left in all the Fuck Spez stuff, while removing anything "promoting violence".

Eventually he'll see himself out the door with an enormous payoff. The reddit faithful will cheer his departure, but none of what he's done will be reversed.

Reddit wants to be TikTok because that makes money.

If I wanted TikTok I'd have downloaded it.

I didn't. So I left.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

True. It's sad to see all this coming from 90s early 00s internet.

[–] Bondrewd 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Last time I saw the guillotine, it was getting filled by a random color swarm.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm guessing either bots or Reddit themselves removed it.

[–] BrudderAaron 86 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Going to call it. Right before place ends, they're going to completely wipe all the Fuck Spezes.

[–] sibannac 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I hope to see the timelapses when this is over.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=ksvc4BGFo4w

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Thank you

[–] xkforce 42 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lets protest reddit by engaging with r/place for hours instead of leaving the site for literally anywhere else. that'll show spez.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Reddit wants a happy, active r/place banner just post the changes to prove to investors that this hasn't damaged their brand.

I hear what you're saying, but fucking with the image they're trying to portray is far more damaging that boycotting them, in this particular case.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They don't have a meeting with Toyota and say "check out the community banner our users created"

They say "we launched a promo that lasted 48 hours (or w/e the fuck it is) and community engagement was through the roof. We had an increase of x% users during this time. The next time we will do this it will be $X amount for X amount of ad space so you can get in front of X amount of users"

I haven't seen r/place but I bet there are 0 ads on that page. Reddit is smarter than to sell ad space next to FUCK SPEZ and My Little Pony Porn. What they will do is increase ad prices for the next "event".

No matter what you think, this engagement is supporting them.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

It's really not. They do not give a shit about what it looks like. All they care about is clicks for ad revenue. They waited from 2017 to 2022 to re-do place, then they do it again a year later, directly after introducing a ton of unpopular changes?

Naw fam, this is 100% them generating traffic and anyone that keeps going to place is falling right into their hands, regardless of what message they think they're sending.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

The advertisers aren't going to care about a banner. Reddit is going to tell them, "yeah there were some protests and a minor dropoff in traffic, but see how well we rebounded and even grew in July!". Every single click on that thing counts as "traffic" and you can bet that that's exactly how reddit is going to sell it.

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[–] grue 20 points 1 year ago

Too much "fuck Spez;" not enough "join Lemmy."

[–] Zozano 19 points 1 year ago

People making giant colour stripes for flags are so fucking lame..

[–] DolphLundgren 13 points 1 year ago

Why not edit the title to “as of Time” when it updates. That would be a cool way to take advantage of the Lemmy feature Reddit never had (but needed)

[–] asunaspersonalasst 12 points 1 year ago

Never change, France. Never change.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago

Looks like way less engagement from the last place.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

tons of engagement, mission accomplished.

[–] Ryantific_theory 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Canada cursed to never produce a maple leaf. The guillotine replaced by an Ariane rocket. An unnaturally thicc Pikmin. Fuck spez scattered across the world.

Also, DEEPCOCKGALACTIC 😂

It's a shame Reddit is a mess, because these sort of silly community events are one of the best parts of the internet. Though some fools turned the dick in the DICKS piece into just a normal I. That was art.

As an aside, while staying off Reddit has the greatest impact on the company itself, Lemmy's population is negligible compared to the number of angry redditors on Reddit itself. Advertising Lemmy as an alternative and guiding more people to join is going to have a much larger long-term impact than being a thousandth of a percent of their engagement numbers. That said, it looks like the Lemmy add disappeared as well.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

"Black Company" fighting the good fight, it seems.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

We're losing the void :( It's a great rage against the canvas

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I'm stoked to see OSHA in the bottom right!!!

(I hope it's the work-place-safety OSHA and not some terrible reference I'm not familiar with.)

[–] missmayflower 6 points 1 year ago

r/osugame needs to HURRY UP and migrate to Lemmy. I haven't been on reddit since last month and I'm missing my osu community there 😢

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lol I like the german mastodon drinking spezi

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

It's an "ottifant" a word combination of "Otto + elephant" and Otto Waalkes a famous comedian is also the artist.

Ottifants had a 16-MBit Game for the SEGA Genesis and an animated tv-show.

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[–] samus12345 4 points 1 year ago

Spezi and Ottifanten, that brings me back.

[–] Wildchandelure 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I enjoy seeing mau5trap rep

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lol, this isn’t being influenced by Reddit at all /s

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