rr7It is happening! r/place goes out with a bang
3 minutes later
LuciLol
I was against giving them the engagement but this is goooood
The engagement is fleeting but the spoiling of the narrative is forever.
genoxidedev1FUCK SPEZ
EnasniNever forget he accused the Apollo dev of blackmail and doubled-down on the claim even after evidence disproved it.
Pretty sure that’s a crime in most places.
average650I don’t think it’s a crime, but it probably is a tort.
Crimes only count if poor people do them
Never forget that defends and protects Nazis and child abusers. Right wing terrorists radicalized entirely or partially on Reddit have killed dozens of people.
Yeah, now reddit can’t really promote the final version of this one
That’s incredibly awesome. What a fantastic way to end it!
Honestly i’m sure this is the best thing that could happen for the reddit execs in terms of user engagement. Writing “fuck spez” on reddit is like shouting “save the planet” from a cruise ship.
I wrote about this elsewhere. Every post about Reddit or place has tons of comments like yours insisting that any engagement is good for Reddit. I disagree.
Reddit want dissenting users to leave! They have no interest in retaining it’s traditional userbase of cynical, tech-savvy users. They’re incredibly intolerant of advertising and difficult to monetise, and much of the reason why Reddit hasn’t made as much money as some of its competition.
They’d rather we all went elsewhere and left them with doomscrolling memelords that don’t care if a post is a corporate shill or not, as long as it’s entertaining.
Sure, not engaging with their site reduced their numbers and thus value. But the number of users on Lemmy is a tiny fraction that I guarantee they’d be happy to lose if it made their userbase more tolerant of corporate bullshittery.
My goal isn’t to knock a fraction off their IPO valuation, it’s to bring other users and communities over to better platforms like this one. Or, for Reddit to realise they done fucked up and roll back some of those user-hostile changes. That takes advocacy and reminding people of the failings of the platform’s admins.
This form of protest is valid and I support it.
Yep, whenever I see those type of comments I always think to myself that they're secretly pro-reddit and want to deter us from advertising Lemmy and other alternatives on Reddits BIGGEST attraction and putting the FUCK SPEZ where people WILL see it.
I don't think a foil hat is necessary
They just want people off of reddit. You don’t agree with the site, so you stop using it. If enough people do that, they lose money. Sure, there’s the argument you are advertising Lemmy to more users but anybody who has been paying attention for the last couple months already knows what Lemmy is.
Either they give a shit and have already switched over or they don’t give and won’t.
These posts pushing Lemmy are starting to remind me of shitcoin pump and dumps. My opinion is just disconnect from reddit and let Lemmy/kbin grow naturally. As long as it maintains consistent positive growth, it will be a beautiful thing in some years. There’s no need to spam reddit.
CheshireSnakeYou don’t agree with the site, so you stop using it. If enough people do that, they lose money.
Maybe someone should tell them that’s never gonna happen, then? Because a lot of them seem to think the amount of protestors are more than enough to influence reddit traffic. I’m all for boycotting reddit (i was probably here earlier than most rexxitors - this is my 4th account due to looking for a good home instance), but stopping people from protesting is just wrong. Protesting doesn’t mean just boycotting.
let Lemmy/kbin grow naturally. As long as it maintains consistent positive growth, it will be a beautiful thing in some years.
As far as the Fediverse is concerned, I agree completely.
There’s no need to spam reddit.
There may be no need, but there certainly is a reason in some people’s minds.
I mean people can do whatever they want, I don’t care. Me personally I had a 14 year old reddit account that I scrubbed clean by editing over the thousands of comments with a script right before the API change date.
And I haven’t been back since. I don’t agree with reddit, so I’m not going to use reddit.
If people want to go on reddit and protest, go for it why not. I just think it’s a meaningless activity. It’s owned by a company that couldn’t care less about people protesting. The average redditor is also apathetic towards the cause. Reddit is not what it was 10 years ago.
Permission to use this in the future for similar comments. With credit, of course. You explained it better than i ever could.
Sure!
Quite a lot of people just like scrolling through nonsensical shorts and staged garbage squeezed between sponsored posts and fake game ads. I don’t understand it but it’s what most people like to do. Look at Facebook, it’s still making money. Reddit’s doing the same formula. Killing third party apps was just part of penning people in.
How much coordination did this take? You’re only able to do a certain about of pixels right? Or did it freefall at the last minute?
There was clearly a large bot net which started stencilling the outlines of the letters, but then it was magic, everybody understood the assignment. The letters filled out in a handful of minutes. Then, then the whiteout slowed - the apes (mostly) agreed the job was done. It took another half an hour or so for the white fog to finally take hold.
Shure some bots might be involved, but there was a tampermonkey overlay which showed where to put the right pixel. Many with this overlay worked ahead and the rest followed. Also some streamers coordinated hundreds of thousands of users.
oce 🐆The gorgeous magic of the internets.
There was no bot net doing the outlines. The r/placeDE Discord prepared an overlay and distributed it to many other large communities and twitch streamers.
At the time or the whiteout the r/placeDE had 6500 active users in the voice chat coordinating to draw the outlines. A German streamer sent his 100k+ viewers to draw the letters. Other big communities also contributed.
i had this question a couple of days ago and today fell totally down the fuck spez rabbithole.
found myself on the main discord where the coordinators were talking to uruguay about doing the “u” after columbia (?) declined. guess hearing that, both uruguay and equador wanted in.
there was discussion of not stepping over the swiss flag in one of the letter because they were part of the coalition.
these folks are dedicated - many commented they hadn’t really slept since it went live. kudos to all of them for the passion they showed today.
tbh it was impressive and one of the best executed operations i’ve seen in a long time. very fun to see up close.
working for a global multinational company i only wish we were this efficient internally ❤️
That’s really interesting and very cool. Thanks for the insight
I love this, lol
FavrionWhat’s the difference?
When does place end?
Now. You can only place white pixels currently
Racist redfit finally speaks.
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
EdibleFriendIT HAPPENED! THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER TO KEEP USING REDDIT AND MAKE THEM MONEY WHILE SAYING FUCK REDDIT!!
WE DID IT REDDIT!!
You don’t really get PR, do you?
Any publicity is good publicity
Do you want to invest money in a community that’s producing this?
FireTowerTell that to Jared Fogle.
Worked for Hitler.
You know it’s just bots right?
LMAO🤣
Worked for me, quit Reddit and in the lemmyverse now. They did this to themselves.
Reddit admins right now www.reactiongifs.com/r/Dz3nk.gif
Gaius was the best part of BSG
He was a very good part at least. The whole show was so good without a single bad character I don’t think. It’s hard to pick a favorite.
Swarmy ole gaius
Me after accidentally deleting my hard drive.
Every time anything negative towards reddit has gone up on place, mass unattributed changes have happened. I expect the same will happen here.
This is actually amazing.
Thank you to everyone that contributed to this beautiful piece of art🫡
Man they really showed Spez who is boss by contributing to all the engagement KPIs they’re going to use to position the opening valuation of the IPO. Truly the most epic prank of all!
At least it ruins their ability to advertise with r/place like they wanted to. At this point, making as much of reddit as useless as possible is the last way to make them listen
I mean, all they have to do is take a screenshot / stop timelapses just before the giant fuck spez showed up and they’re golden
DespairAnd crop out all the other scattered “fuck spez” messages?
Those are a problem sure, but far harder to see then the giant one
The huge one on the right formed literally seconds after the last canvas expansion. Unless they completely get rid of the last day the canvas is going to have a giant “fuck spez” that’s probably the biggest text that has ever appeared on place.
TheGoldenGodA cat beat everyone to it.
Dang those thangs are thanging.
Lol is this why Reddit has been flaky for the past hour?
Trying to view some posts and get random “community not found” errors or page loading errors.
Waiting to see how they gonna spin it when (if) they make a post about how great r/place was this time around.
DoubleOwl7777got what he deserved.