- cross-posted to:
- dach@feddit.de
Totally not suspicious timing at all.
Also if you’re willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They’re not fooling anyone.
Someone’s already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)
edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN
Lmaydev ( @Lmaydev@programming.dev ) 65•1 year agoThis community has not been reviewed and might contain content inappropriate for certain viewers. View in the Reddit app to continue.
What fresh hell is this
PoliticalAgitator ( @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ) 39•1 year agoThey didn’t “review” subs when there was one using images of children as child pornography, without the subjects knowledge or consent.
They didn’t “review” subs when mask-off, far-right extremists moved in and started trading slurs and writing murder fantasies.
They didn’t “review” subs when reactionaries were spreading dangerous and clearly false medical misinformation in the middle of a pandemic.
But they’ll review subs when those subs might be a threat to their revenue.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
I’m pretty sure that’s just the standard message they show when you attempt to view any nsfw content on their new site.
PoliticalAgitator ( @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ) 3•1 year agoThe sub doesn’t appear to be marked as NSFW.
- AnarchoYeasty ( @AnarchoYeasty@beehaw.org ) 3•1 year ago
Right, but give your users free reign to draw whatever they want pixel by pixel and it’s going to quickly become nsfw. I know reddit sucks and all and I’m not trying to give them the benefit of the doubt. I just don’t think this message is the conspiracy theory everyone thinks it is.
PoliticalAgitator ( @PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee ) 2•1 year agoNot exactly a conspiracy theory to predict that a company that has been routinely unethical might be unethical.
samwise ( @samwise@kbin.social ) 17•1 year agoOld.Reddit doesn’t have that problem though I’m sure they’re working on it
FaceDeer ( @FaceDeer@kbin.social ) 14•1 year agoWhen old.reddit finally goes away is when I will finally stop even the minimal remaining interaction I have with that site.
TubeTalkerX ( @TubeTalkerX@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoGive it a week…
Belgdore ( @Belgdore@lemm.ee ) English5•1 year agoOpen it in browser and change the “www.” To “old.”
pirate526 ( @pirate526@kbin.social ) 3•1 year agoAbsolutely goddamn pitiful. Fuck Reddit.
ngl ( @ngl@lemmy.ml ) 16•1 year agoI wouldn’t put it past the admins to actively try to remove protests on r/place
bstix ( @bstix@feddit.dk ) 4•1 year agoIf r/place ever taught me anything it is that coordination of r/place does not happen on Reddit.
On both cases it was swarmed and “ruined” by influencers on other sites.
Iwasondigg ( @Iwasondigg@lemmy.one ) 49•1 year agoThey want to give their rebelling and unhappy user base a giant digital dry erase board to graffiti and express themselves? That will go great!
cheery_coffee ( @cheery_coffee@lemmy.ca ) 6•1 year agoIt’ll juice the monthly active users number
Mario Bariša ( @MarioBarisa@lemmy.ml ) 41•1 year agoWe need to put a giant “join Lemmy” sign and /or a giant “API” sign to piss them off
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) 9•1 year ago
That would involve interacting with Reddit. No thank you.
dullbananas ( @dullbananas@lemmy.ca ) English4•1 year agoThis will give Lemmy a huge boost just like last year with r/F***Cars
maynarkh ( @maynarkh@feddit.nl ) English1•1 year agoYou can write duck on the internet.
Rentlar ( @Rentlar@beehaw.org ) 1•1 year agoI’m with ya there. As much as I’m done with Reddit… the thought of spitting in Reddit’s face after what they’ve done to spite everyone else in the quest for money, is tantalizing.
Nepenthe ( @Nepenthe@kbin.social ) 36•1 year agoAh, reddit comment bots. Now with…Boomhauer?
For nobody wondering, I’m gonna go with lolno. Moving away from reddit means I’m moving away from reddit, not screaming profanities on their front lawn at 3am like a drunken ex trying to prove how much I don’t need them.
UnhappyCamper ( @UnhappyCamper@kbin.social ) 5•1 year agoLooks like someone continuously hitting the suggested words on there cellphone keyboard.
Also, love the analogy.
Stoneykins ( @Stoneykins@lemmy.one ) 28•1 year agoCall me boring if you want but this was already overdone and annoying by the second time they did it. Not looking forward to dumb screenshots of hard to understand pixel drama taking over everything again, it will probably be posted all over lemmy too…
I think if you stay off this community and any other reddit related ones you should be fine
Stoneykins ( @Stoneykins@lemmy.one ) 4•1 year agoHopefully
lackthought ( @lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org ) 24•1 year agolet’s start our own c/place, with blackjack and hookers!
Iwasondigg ( @Iwasondigg@lemmy.one ) 9•1 year agoAnd my shiny metal ass!
Flaky ( @Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 5•1 year agoPretty sure there was a thing like r/place but for streamers. So they’re are ahead of ya there at least.
athos77 ( @athos77@kbin.social ) 17•1 year agoTotally not suspicious timing at all.
I like how they included June 23 in their animation, like they’d been planning to do it for reddit’s Very Special 18th birthday and just accidently overshot, instead of “they’re foundering and are desperately trying to drive traffic to the site back up so they can tell the advertisers and the investors that traffic and engagement is back up” - without telling them exactly what they did to try to drive traffic back up.
Current view seems to be a great big “API” on the screen, but I absolutely wouldn’t put it past them to either skew the accounts (admin accounts can change colors as much as they want!) or do something annoying like arranging for xQc and his little cult to grief the board again (which probably wouldn’t take much beyond someone telling him that he was welcome to do so).
RickyRigatoni ( @RickyRigatoni@lemmy.ml ) 15•1 year agoHoly hell they are so desperate it’s just sad.
null ( @null@zerobytes.monster ) 13•1 year agoCan not wait for the biggest “fuck u/spez” ever 🤣
Very_Bad_Janet ( @Very_Bad_Janet@kbin.social ) 4•1 year agoI clicked on the link (this was posted.on Tildes, that’s where I clicked) and it was a flood of “API” sprinkled with some “F U u/Spez” comments. Just nonstop. So, I suspect this is not going over so well.
Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) 12•1 year agoI didn’t touch it last time when they made it exclusive to the new site design. Definitely not touching it after everything else.
Tulko ( @Tulko@kbin.social ) 12•1 year agoThe whole point of r/Place was to happen only so occasionally. I really got hyped for the second one, because I was too late for the first one. It happening every year would kill the hype for me. So thanks, I’ll pass and stay logged out.
Cethin ( @Cethin@lemmy.zip ) 3•1 year agoIt really didn’t function at all like it should have a shirt time after it released. Once the bots were out, there was no use participating.
MortyMcFry 🇦🇺 ( @MortyMcFry@aussie.zone ) 1•1 year agoIt hasn’t even been a year since the last one
JayK117 ( @JayK117@aussie.zone ) 10•1 year agoQuick, someone figure out a way to write ‘Fuck u/spez’ without increasing site traffic!
starman ( @starman@programming.dev ) 10•1 year agoThis is ridiculous
Da_Boom ( @Da_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyi ) 7•1 year agoWow, remember when they did something different every April first
Also, this isn’t going to keep us distracted - this is an effort to keep the userbase alive - by continually running events and keeping controversy fresh, they can get people’s curiosity to get the best of themselves and make the number of active users spike.
My guess is they potentially go public during one of these spikes
arrowfunc ( @arrowfunc@feddit.de ) 7•1 year agoWould be cool if r/place could be used to give some exposure to lemmy. Maybe something like a big “move 2 lemmy” text. But probably difficult to find and coordinate enough people.
It’s worth trying, at least a small one if someone wants to make a discord/matrix server to coordinate. I’m already working on the pixels