- red ( @red@feddit.de ) English120•11 months ago
Doesn’t matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don’t care what is drawn, as long as it’s nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write “fuck u/spez”? Sure, whatever.
- KingStrafeIV ( @KingStrafeIV@midwest.social ) English46•11 months ago
“No such thing as bad publicity” comes to mind.
- TheKombiZombi ( @TheKombiZombi@feddit.de ) English30•11 months ago
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)…
- Little1Lost ( @Little8Lost@feddit.de ) English4•11 months ago
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
- Hotzilla ( @Hotzilla@sopuli.xyz ) English24•11 months ago
Yeah, this was well played from reddit, they knew that r/place was one of the most popular things reddit ever did, so luring people back with it is excellent plan. They don’t care shit about the fuck spez texts, they can now say that they broke engagement records, even without third party api’s.
Yeah, so true as long as there’s engagement ,that’s all that matters to them.
- lemillionsocks ( @lemillionsocks@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
Right? It reminds me of those popular twitter right wingers that get exposure from negative publicity. People feel so smug and proud that they “dunked” on this loser who would otherwise be ignored and forgotten and instead they amplify and magnify the message.
- bestonecrazy ( @bestonecrazy@lemmy.zip ) English45•11 months ago
They are aiming for this as a distraction
- evdo ( @evdo@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English24•11 months ago
They’ve already used one CEO as a fall guy (er… fall gal). Not that I’m a fan, but do we really think spez is the one person in charge of all the stuff going down?
- empireOfLove ( @empireOfLove@lemmy.one ) English35•11 months ago
Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.
- CAPSLOCKFTW ( @CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml ) English32•11 months ago
The text in the german flag area translates to
u/spez is a son of a removed
- Vlyn ( @Vlyn@lemmy.ml ) English27•11 months ago
You can swear on the internet. Violence? Gore? No problem!
A bad word? Son of a removed, we’re all going to die.
Edit: Wtf, there is a swear filter? Fuck.
- QuinceDaPence ( @QuinceDaPence@kbin.social ) 20•11 months ago
What pearl clutching son of a bitch at lemmy.ml decided its users were too fragile to hear the word “bitch”? And here’s the real question, can you read ot or does it censor mine? Because if you can read it then what’s the point of censoring your own users?
Edit: yeah Kbin lets you say it.
- Vlyn ( @Vlyn@lemmy.ml ) English4•11 months ago
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment. The word gets immediately replaced when you post. I’d like to know what words are forbidden, is there a list somewhere?
Just to test how the filter behaves: Bi.tch.
- BartsBigBugBag ( @BartsBigBugBag@lemmy.tf ) English11•11 months ago
I can read every swear in this thread except the root post.
- harmonea ( @harmonea@kbin.social ) 11•11 months ago
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment.
Correction: No one browsing through your specific server can read it. The rest of us see it just fine.
From where I’m sitting, it seems like the filter is applied (a) when a lemmy.ml user makes a post (it strips it from the source and says removed for everyone) and (b) when lemmy.ml federates another instance’s comment over (source instance and any other non-censored federated instance has the word intact, ONLY you guys don’t see it).
- hypelightfly ( @hypelightfly@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
Just move on to a better instance that isn’t run by tankies. Problem solved.
- flicker ( @flicker@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
If the swear is posted on kbin, and viewed on kbin, it is not censored. Which is why I can view ‘bitch’ when posted by kbin folks. And I assume they can read mine.
- Dekthro ( @Dekthro@lemm.ee ) English16•11 months ago
Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
- flashgnash ( @flashgnash@lemm.ee ) English3•11 months ago
Funny, fuck isn’t censored but bitch is
- MJKee9 ( @MJKee9@lemmy.one ) English2•11 months ago
Kyle’s mom’s a bitch…
- Dekthro ( @Dekthro@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
looks like tankies love censorship, who would have guessed
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English10•11 months ago
Hmm. Testing to see: removed.
That’s crazy, it even blocks my ex wife’s name.
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English8•11 months ago
Ladies and/or gentlemen, this is a historic moment: the second coming of hunter2.
- oatscoop ( @oatscoop@midwest.social ) English6•11 months ago
What’s “*******”?
- WarmSoda ( @WarmSoda@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
It’s blocks your wife’s name, too? Sometimes else try.
- CAPSLOCKFTW ( @CAPSLOCKFTW@lemmy.ml ) English7•11 months ago
For anyone who wants to swear in german, just say
who rain zone
But fast
- red ( @red@feddit.de ) English6•11 months ago
I’d say ran is a bit closer than rain, but either way, that’s still very English German.
- eleitl ( @eleitl@lemmy.ml ) English14•11 months ago
Higher traffic stats means higher user engagement. It helps with higher valuation for the IPO.
If you want to hurt them, remove your content, do a GDPR request, and disengage. Focus on the Fediverse instead.
- TheTrueMrWhite ( @TheTrueMrWhite@feddit.nl ) English14•11 months ago
The timing, the bots, the board, everything about this edition just feels weird… Definitely doesn’t spark the same joy as earlier editions. Could’ve expected this ofcourse, just sad that a
gooddecent thing is burning to ground- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English10•11 months ago
I completely don’t care about this 3rd edition… first and second one I placed pixel every 5 minutes, this one I just saw it because of this post and the result is pathetic
- nonearther ( @nonearther@lemmy.ml ) English11•11 months ago
Only reason to bring r/pics now instead of April 1st was to drive the engagement, and by looks of it Reddit succeeded immensely in that.
They baited people and everyone bit it.
I don’t think anyone at Reddit cares what message is passed through this as long as they get traffic.
They are like Velma of social media
- pdlrd:// ( @poudlardo@terefere.eu ) English11•11 months ago
They only waited one year when we had to wait 5 years for the previous one. No they’re fooling us
- Gorilladrums ( @Gorilladrums@lemm.ee ) English9•11 months ago
What is this supposed to accomplish?
“Hey Spez, we’re going to use your site, consume the ads you give us, pay for useless premium features, drive up engagement, and participate in your meaningless events but fuck you so take that” - average Redditor
- metaStatic ( @metaStatic@kbin.social ) 5•11 months ago
that used to be the average redditor
I would say the average has gotten much much worse if morons like me got fed up with the greedy little pigboy
- 🇰 🔵 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 ℹ️ ( @Kolanaki@yiffit.net ) 1•11 months ago
The only difference now is the “fuck spez” part. All those redditors aren’t redditors anymore.
- hypelightfly ( @hypelightfly@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
Except they are still redditors, it requires an account to place pixels.
- Papamousse ( @Frederic@beehaw.org ) English6•11 months ago
oh god it’s pathetic… I remember very well the first r/place, then the second one was super cool too! But this one, wow, super pathetic :-( shame on reddit…
- argv_minus_one ( @argv_minus_one@beehaw.org ) English5•11 months ago
I wonder if there are any shared canvas things like this outside of Reddit? The idea is pretty neat.
- Stan ( @Stan@lemmywinks.com ) English4•11 months ago
There was a website that did this like 20 years ago. Hell if I can find it. Was called something like the one million project.
- yiliu ( @yiliu@informis.land ) English2•11 months ago
The Million Dollar Homepage. Some guy made a 1000x1000 canvas and sold every pixel for $1. Lots of dot-com tech companies bought little banners and stuff.
- hypelightfly ( @hypelightfly@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
The million dollar homepage. They sold 1 million pixels for $1 each.
- cyberdecker ( @cyberdecker@beehaw.org ) English2•11 months ago
I remember Drawball being pretty popular on 4chan back in the mid 2000s. It was a lot of fun.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/drawball
Someone has done a similar thing here: https://drawball.io
- stolid_agnostic ( @stolid_agnostic@lemmy.one ) English5•11 months ago
That’s what I don’t get. How could they think that this wouldn’t happen?
- twelve12 ( @twelve12@lemmy.ml ) English1•11 months ago
I’m not sure I totally get it, what happened?
- DarthCluck ( @DarthCluck@lemm.ee ) English2•11 months ago
/r/places is a thing on Reddit where people cooperate to make art. People are using that opportunity to lambast Reddit at Reddit’s expense
- Iwasondigg ( @Iwasondigg@lemmy.one ) English4•11 months ago
Going about as I expected.