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.world
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    1 year 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.world
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    1 year 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.

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      1 year ago

      My personal theory: to offset activity losses and show shareholders that they can still drive engagement.

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    1 year ago

    Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.

    And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.

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    1 year ago

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

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      1 year ago

      That would require logging into Reddit. I have a feeling this is to boost clicks for a really poor months performance so they can say “look 3rd party apps being dead is fine!”

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        1 year ago

        Ding ding ding

        I mean, its pretty transparent attempt by spez to boost.interactions with the site, but that won’t stop people from doing exactly what spez wants them to do.

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        1 year ago

        If we’re patient, we can see it play out a dozen times in YouTube videos without giving Reddit any traffic.

        Edit: I am not patient.