violetgreendev,
PolandIsAStateOfMind,
@PolandIsAStateOfMind@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s a nerd place for nerd groups and the only thing it shows is who manage to gather the highest number of most terminally online people.

Blastoid5000,
@Blastoid5000@lemmy.world avatar

Just remember, lack of engagement will hurt the pockets more than any vandalism ever will.

aloeha,

Friendly reminder not to visit r/place. They are probably doing it now to get traffic to the site. I’m sure they expected this outcome.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

Sorry for the double reply - just sharing a few of the current highlights:

Reddit alien with "spez" on the face, in the guillotinehttps://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/d8b6b960-df62-4f45-bfa3-571ea726a46d.png

"fuck spez" in two areas of the canvashttps://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/ca3f2190-8b67-4c46-996c-52fb1f98bfbf.pnghttps://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/87a2d690-967d-4ba3-933f-de5fadc2e3b1.png

"never forget what was stolen from us! r/savethirdpartyapps"https://lemmy.ml/pictrs/image/c032fab7-be6f-4684-8d14-8bd6bc5039aa.png

From the last years, it seems to me that there’s less vandalism, and less overall fights for pixels. This might be due to lower engagement.

agnosticians,

Heads up that your spoilers are broken (at least on wefwef).

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

I tried to fix it, but from Voyager (wefwef.app)'s side it was even worse, so I undid it. It’s working fine on the desktop, and following Lemmy’s commonmark guide, so I think that the issue is from wefwef’s side of the things (check if there’s a bug report about this in their github).

agnosticians,

Thanks! I’ll put in a bug report if there’s not one already.

Anticorp,

It works on Jerboa. BTW, reddit edited r/place and removed all of those messages shortly after they were created. There’s a video of it happening somewhere out there.

Ulu-Mulu-no-die,
@Ulu-Mulu-no-die@kbin.social avatar

It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.

Ertebolle,

Meh, any engagement bump will be fleeting, and meanwhile they're going to have another round of Reddit Sucks articles about either a) /r/place being taken over by anti-reddit people or b) Reddit censoring /r/place.

Ertebolle,
crowsby,
@crowsby@lemmy.world avatar

Ayep. It’s a clever move to get a July traffic bump to offset any losses from the unpopular API etcetera decisions. Then they can point to the overall numbers and say hey, our average visits per user actually went up after we closed the API, so this is proof our users actually love all our shitty recent decisions.

b00m,
@b00m@kbin.social avatar

Welp, Reddit sure got its user engagement up

Echo71Niner,
@Echo71Niner@kbin.social avatar

r/place is a battleground for hundreds of bots, possibly thousands. I'm done with Reddit.

DirkMcCallahan,

Not bad, but it needs more pro-Rexit messaging. A few highly visible Lemmy links would be nice.

dhork,

It would be more subversive to stick a huge Apollo logo front and center.

Anticorp,

There were several, including a QR code, but Reddit edited them out shortly after they were completed.

bimmerman535,

How long has it been going? Took me about 5 mins to get their stupid app working to place a pixel. Contributed to the f spez.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

I like that they were able to coordinate enough to make “fuck spez” so visible (plus the “spez ist ein Hrensohn” = “spez is a son of a btch”). I just wish that they focused on the big picture - Spez himself is just a tool (in both senses) for Reddit Inc., and it’s the whole corporation that should be screwed over.

TeddE,
@TeddE@lemmy.world avatar

Yes, but it’s also a symbol. And there seems to be enough of a consensus in the zeitgeist, that that message appears to be somewhat self-organizing as a common sentiment. For something chaotic like /r/place that sort of undercurrent is a boon.

aport,

Yes they really showed Reddit inc! It will crumble any second I’m sure.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

I don’t agree with the user above, but there’s no need to use a sarcastic tone towards them.

TeddE,
@TeddE@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you. I appreciate the appeal to civility.

lvxferre,
@lvxferre@lemmy.ml avatar

It’s easier to organise people towards a “fuck spez” than the other alternatives, I agree. But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much. And nationalists are already covering the message here and there with their flags.

Anticorp,

But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much.

Like the Occupy Wall street movement. It got a lot of attention, organized a lot of people, and accomplished nothing. People were like “what is this for?” And the answer was pretty much “we’re angry!”, So the reply was just “okay…”

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