What we really need to do is start writing down all the Lemmy instances. It's one thing to tell off reddit, it's another thing to get people off of reddit.
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R/place is only remotely possible through the act of brigading
In my opinion, something like "Join Lemmy" is fine, but a giant penis with LEMMY next to it is not as good a look and I'd rather you not coordinate that plan here.
Understood. I'm just requesting we don't make the Fediverse look bad.
Part of me doesn't like the fact that this is just giving Reddit engagement.
But another part of me is happy that this is here, even if it'll inevitably get destroyed this is honestly a really sweet gesture.
Gotta love it! I wonder if spez is paying any attention at all. Or better yet if the actual people in charge are.
There's no way they aren't aware of this. But also: what did they expect?
Engagement with the platform to hype up their ipo
Won't help. It's a blip on the radar compared to average daily users. I'll take the bad press any day.
Pretty sure they’re just gambling that this’ll give them a bump in installs/logins with their mobile app that they can use to boost their figures for IPO.
I think they are leaving some of it up so the spez stans can "come to his defence" and this constant back and forth will generate traffic which is what he would use to convince investors to invest.
I think they realize that trying to prevent the “fuck spez” content is futile, and are instead focusing on blocking stuff that tells people about lemmy and other reddit alternatives. That’s much easier to get away with.
All this is doing is driving up engagement for reddit. If you wanna protest then just stay off reddit. This isn't to say I don't enjoy seeing this, cause it is hilarious, but it's still giving them what they want, engagement.
I don't necessarily agree, if one persons short term engagement results in five people's long term disengagements then it's a net gain and a good investment!
It doesn't hurt to use these opportunities to remind people of the reasons to abandon Reddit (and of course of all the various alternatives that exist).
You make a pretty good argument here, never thought of it this way.
Agreed fully with this comment.
At this rate, it's like shouting against a wall and expect it to melt down by itself -- spez gets a nice sum of money in his pockets each time someone goes to reddit to ~~whine~~ post about him.
It's all engagement for Reddit. They are probably laughing at how gullible people are.
They couldn't make a profit when the engagement was generally happening in good faith. I doubt they'll be able to convert this bad faith engagement into anything of value. It's just a web app where you can change pixels, do they even have ads on there, let alone ones that won't be blocked by all the users using ad blockers?
I mean, it is hard to tell what their goal was in even starting this. The results should have been very predictable. Maybe they were just trying anything they could think of out of desperation, or maybe the whole idea was to get a good idea of what people think of them and if there was a silent majority that didn't care about the third party app drama but would engage sufficiently to drown out the spez hate at least a bit.
But this should have been predictable because even the very first r/place ended up dominated by automation tools, which are used by people looking for a custom experience rather than an official one.
I think the whole "any engagement = profit potential" is the mindset that got Reddit into this mess in the first place. Though maybe more on the angle of "the admins realized they needed to show evidence of that or even realize it for a successful IPO".
Maybe. But if I was thinking about buying into their ipo I might be pretty skeptical of a social media site that's actively antagonizing their users while it can barely turn a profit when 90% of their labor force are unpaid volunteers.
Engagement can be fleeting and I'm not sure their archive content is as valuable to LLMs as they think it is.
Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy
If you’re going to protest, do it in a way that will upset Reddit’s ability to sell ads and stock. Put goatse on there. Drop hateful racism and misogyny. Link to The Flash torrents. Post hentai.
Won't work, the Reddit admins just barge in there and start censoring it. Like the Spez effigy guillotine.
This is beautiful.
Proud owner of a pixel that makes up the S at the end.
I guess I'm kind of a big deal
Sadly, the French guillotine is gone now.
RIF RIP 😭
Rip bozo
Wow, in the article it says you can't access it from old reddit. So the new "place" is to pull people back in and see how engaged people are without old reddit. I haven't been on reddit once in the last month. I'd never use reddit without old reddit.
That's cool to see. Honestly, I haven't been to r/place at all, so I have no idea what's happening there at all. I was only there last year for Technoblade.
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