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[–] [email protected] 210 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I get more Reddit news on Lemmy than I did on Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Completely logical as much of it is removed on Reddit and many of us are curious about our old stomping grounds. It's the people complaining about it that are getting tiring.

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm satisfied by reading about it though Lemmy so I don't actually have to go there

[–] VaidenKelsier 6 points 1 year ago

Legit. It's been great, keeping up while not having to actually do anything that might support reddit.

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

Eh, the only problem I have is that it spills into so many communities and that makes it hard to curate your feed. Personally, I do want to see some Reddit stuff. I'm both curious and just plain amused by the drama. But I don't want my feed dominated by it and try to limit my subscriptions of Reddit related communities.

Plus I don't view this as a meme.

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

I tried to escape from r/place posts, but couldn't

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think this should be the last of it until Reddit's IPO, the administration team is just going to sit back and pretend nothing happened in the mean time.

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

It depends on how much Reddit wants to follow in Elon Musk's steps in destroying their service.

[–] [email protected] 123 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Apes together still giving Reddit traffic.

It's like writing anti-walmart propaganda on a thousand one dollar bills and then spending them all at Walmart.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

meh. I'm not interested in participating, but for a short uptick in user activity, a bunch of tech journals will be writing about this and they'll come up is searches about /r/place for years to come. It will be a net lose for spez.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (2 children)

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Sorry if I'm misinterpreting your comment, but that's usually in reference to people who expect you to make unilateral sacrifices as protest. Foregoing r/place isn't a sacrifice like foregoing a smartphone entirely is; the whole point either way (deface/ignore) is just to send a message.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (6 children)

I'm sorry, I missed the part where Reddit is a integral and necessary part of modern life.

[–] SasquatchBanana 15 points 1 year ago

Reddit isn't but the internet is. The internet has been getting shittier the past year and people feel it. How many times do you append reddit at the end of your google searches? How many times does google send you reddit search results?

Reddit is a remnant of the internet before it got centralized and capitalism fucked it up. Yes, we are federated but a majority won't be switching for a long time. I think there is validity in defacing /r/place as it brings awareness and documents the shitty things the admins are doing. That is very powerful and easy to point and show others what is happening.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tiny, insignificant amount of traffic to send a lasting messagem. Worth it.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Looks like a shitload of people accessing it several times a day, some watching it like hawks, and an entire genre of Reddit refugees who've taken to advertising it on a daily basis.

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

:NOWAY: Not the 400 people advertising Lemmy vs the at least 30 million Bots and the few million Reddit users.

Look at this and tell me we are a statistic.

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

I mean, poking in and scrolling your old favorite sub for 10 minutes 3 times a day is still substantially less traffic then constantly bumming around on r/all all day

Besides, with the sheer number of reddit users not even including the tens of thousands of bots, the site traffic generated by Lemmy users is probably so small it makes no difference at all

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

yeah but lowkey how funny would it be if that was the final r/place image they've gotta solidify in history

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

Wont everyone leave after r/place ends? Does it matter if the extra traffic is only temporary?

[–] [email protected] 92 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you to everyone that contributed to this beautiful piece of art🫡

[–] Lapus 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] TheGoldenGod 94 points 1 year ago (5 children)

He’s the Reddit CEO and allegedly has sex with cats

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I need some fuckin' eye bleach. But this is beautiful... in a sense.

[–] danc4498 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Also a moderator or r/jailbait

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Back then you could make any user a mod without them having to accept.

Not saying spez isn't a cunt that allowed that community to exist for way too long, but let's just be accurate when describing the shitstain.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That's true, and certainly worth noting.

But I think it's also worth noting that he remained a moderator for literal years and only killed the sub after serious media backlash. If no one made a big stink he wouldnt have changed anything

Also he gave the head moderator his own custom trophy as well as the best sub of 2008 award. So I'll let you draw your own conclusions

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

Exactly. He's a fuckin site admin, you're telling me he couldn't just take himself off as moderator right away? Dude probably loves touching kids and everyones is all "oh but anyone could add him". Sick of that line lmao

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

I did not know about that last part. Thank you for the info.

[–] danc4498 2 points 1 year ago

Oh, that’s probably true.

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

Woha wait. I missed these allegations, and I'm too dumb to tell if this is just a joke or a joke based on real allegations

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

It's sort of true from my understanding. He was added as moderator back when you could add anyone without them accepting it

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[–] rtxn 3 points 1 year ago

I need someone to give me context or so help me god

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I didn't think you were until you brought it up, now I'm suspicious

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fucking cowards erasing it

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

It's beautiful because it existed for one fleeting moment in time.

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

That's how the second one ended, not the first one. The first one actually had a final image.

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

That's how it ends. Only white pixels can be placed now, and eventually they'll turn the rest white as well.

[–] PuddingFeeling907 4 points 1 year ago

Erasing the art that had nothing to do with the protest. Now they’re just turning the bystanders against them as well.

[–] wildcardology 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You should use his real name, so people outside of reddit will fuck him too.

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

Steve Huffman, that the piece of shit you talking about?

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[–] Sludgehammer 34 points 1 year ago

More like "botnets strong". That's what really soured me on the second /r/place, it was completely taken over by crypto fanatics and meme stock morons running bots.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

stop using reddit

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago

why are people indulging this company after all they did?

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