What could go wrong?

Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.

  • Geek_King@lemmy.worldEnglish
    137·
    2 years ago

    That doesn’t seem like a prudent idea.

    “Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we’ve made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!”

  • Furbag@lemmy.worldEnglish
    55·
    2 years ago

    Sadly, nothing bad will happen to reddit no matter how many people try to protest with pixel art on /r/place. Last year, admins unabashedly removed entire swathes of canvas that they deemed inappropriate, sometimes catching legitimate art in the crossfire. Not to mention the admin who got caught red handed placing multiple pixels off of the timer, with video evidence.

    So no, a giant fuck /u/spez will never be allowed to exist long enough to be anywhere close to complete. They’ll do the same thing to any API related banner or whatever you might think of.

    The best thing you can do is not engage. They are doing this again so soon after the last one because they desperately need clicks and traffic to boost their site metrics for the upcoming IPO.

    Besides, it’s just going to be a canvas covered 75% in flags maintained by bots anyway because reddit sucks at programming in safeguards to prevent abuse, so your 1 pixel of contribution won’t mean squat.

    • Hypersapien@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      2 years ago

      I don’t know. The users are way smarter than the admins. I’m sure people can think of a way to do it that the mods won’t notice until it’s too late.

    • R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
      14·
      2 years ago

      Why Lemmy world specifically? I’d just go for Lemmy in general and then it’s a shorter message and doesn’t lead to Lemmy world becoming even more bloated/slow.

      • rDrDr@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        2 years ago

        Joining lemmy.world is a very straightforward replacement for reddit. “Join Lemmy.World” is a much more effective message than “do some research about various instances, register with one that federates with other instances you find interesting, and subscribe to specific communities by searching for them”.

  • Rooty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    34·
    2 years ago

    This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.

  • Televise@lemmy.worldEnglish
    29·
    2 years ago

    The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

    • linearchaos@lemmy.worldEnglish
      26·
      2 years ago

      I guarantee you they’ve got a flock of admins sitting there with the tool to replace any pixels they want.

  • rustyfish@lemmy.worldEnglish
    22·
    2 years ago

    Still won’t go back. Am happy here.

    But just imagine, only a handful of people with bots on their hands. This could end up in a fucking shitshow deluxe.

  • Bappity@lemmy.worldEnglish
    20·
    2 years ago

    I KNEW IT LOL
    I thought that they’d try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the site

  • Gnome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    19·
    2 years ago

    Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won’t participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I’m happy to be here with y’all.

  • devious@lemmy.worldEnglish
    15·
    2 years ago

    I don’t want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!

  • FuglyDuck@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?

    Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time

  • Rolando@lemmy.worldEnglish
    10·
    2 years ago

    Is there a way to see what’s happening to r/place without actually going to reddit? (like a stream or something.) I don’t want to give them the traffic.

  • TechieJosh@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    2 years ago

    It is impressive the lengths that Reddit will reach to ignore their protesting users. They make one tone-deaf decision after another. r/Place should be quite entertaining.