Dankry,
@Dankry@lemmy.world avatar

Good luck to anyone doing it but the whole reason I’m on Lemmy is because I refuse to use reddit’s garbage app. I’m not gonna start now.

realitista,

You can do it on the web. Using the app only for /r/place isn’t so bad. I’d never use it for anything else.

Markofthedead,

Only if you already have the app; otherwise you’re bumping up the number of app downloads in the immediate aftermath of the API changes, which is probably exactly what they want to see.

realitista,

So use the web site.

spacedancer,

Is it available on old.reddit? A lot of people here who refuse to give reddit traffic in the first place also prefer old.reddit and don’t want to use the new interface.

noqturn,

They aren’t allowing it on old.Reddit. It’s seriously just a plot to drive as much traffic as possible to the versions of the sites that’s been monetized to hell

davidgro,

On the plus side, having the app installed means every time it updates I can refresh my 1-star review.

the_green_bastard,

Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.

realitista,

I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.

Septian,

There’s no such thing as bad press. All negative press means is that people are talking about it and that’s engagement.

substill,

You want to give Reddit bad press? Stop posting links to Lemmy. Start posting links to fetish porn.

realitista,

There are people doing that sorta stuff too if you wanna join them. Some QR codes up there.

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spez is, why that’s relevant, what a third party app means, what an API is. If you attempted to start to explain that, they’d just start ignoring your voice as if it were some random noise.

They’ll check the company valuation, their traffic, how much they charge for ads, where they’re located, and will invest or not based on that.

DrMario,

Kinda true but we also know that advertisers can be very picky about having their content displayed next to sensitive content or even profanity. So seeing a guillotine and fuck spez written all over Place on Day 1 was pretty cool

Holymoly,

This is stupid to me. You really think advertisers look only at the stats and not the content? Having been part of trans who had to decide “who to spend our money on” - the content matters A LOT

kadu,
@kadu@lemmy.world avatar

The content matters.

The 1% of power users complaining about executive decisions that improve profitability doesn’t even come close to mattering.

krayj,

An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spe

An investment firm executive makes it their business to know everything there is to know about negative press (or anything else that could jeopardize their management of an IPO), which this campaign is generating huge amounts of…

schmidtster,

It’s a more modern type of marketing that could be considered controversial marketing. Gets people talking, and it works unfortunately.

Here I am engaging with you because of it.

Oisteink,

Now if you could set up a huge bot-net and make the whole thing an obscene picture it will make impact. But I doubt that’s legal and all so don’t do that. Staying off seems to work for me, but I need some filter to remove that site from links here. It’s not very interesting for me to know what happens there. If it was I’d be there

Mereo,

What press are we talking about? For shareholders, it’s all about people engaging with Reddit so they can use machine learning to target ads to people. r/place is an experiment in how to encourage that engagement to make more money for shareholders.

The best way to influence the IPO is not to engage.

CookieJarObserver,
@CookieJarObserver@sh.itjust.works avatar

Depends, they already ramp up “traffic” with bots, so just advertising without paying hurts them more in the long term.

realitista,

I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.

PissinSelfNdriveway,

There is no point in trying,You can’t argue with morons. Just let the think they won and maybe they will just go back to reddit.

1bluepixel,
@1bluepixel@lemmy.world avatar

Fuck /r/place.

realitista,
@realitista@lemmy.one avatar

That’s kind of the point.

realitista,

I’m going to go to bed in about an hour or 2 and am running 4 out of the 5 or 6 of the accounts we have online. I’m a bit worried that we will lose it as we have the last couple times we got a banner going.

Zellith,

Admins will just remove what they dont like anyhow.

realitista,

Hasn’t happened much so far.

PainInTheAES,

What about the guillotine?

Sonotsugipaa,
@Sonotsugipaa@lemmy.dbzer0.com avatar

What guillotine? Reddit is an advertising-friendly platform, its product community would never draw such a thing!

Sentrovasi,

Really makes you think, doesn't it?

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