I can’t imagine anymore that a reddit admin won’t just draw it over
You see, it’s made of flags, unlike the previous ones. That could create a problem for them.
You seem to be under the mistaken belief that spez cares.
It would be funny if they never built a paint brush tool into the interface, and some $100 an hour engineer has to sit there drawing over “Fuck Spez” all day by clicking individual pixels.
User engagement is still user engagement, would be best if no one participated at all.
Sorry I’m not picking on you specifically, but every post about Reddit or r/place has someone saying something like “just leave” “any engagement helps them”, etc.
I think that’s exactly what they want.
They want the intelligent-but-cynical, hard-to-influence, infamously difficult-to-monetise dissenting mob to fuck off elsewhere, and leave them with the doomscrolling, passive users who are willing to use their app and happy to just look at whatever content is in front of them as long as sometimes there is a kitty.
The problem we have is that that mob of vocal users isn’t everybody. It probably isn’t even most users. I think they’d willingly lose us if it means the dissent goes with us.
So I don’t think this negative engagement is necessarily bad - it keeps their mismanagement in the news, and it opens users eyes to alternatives. And for me, that is the goal - to bring some of those awesome communities over to federated alternatives where no one corporate entity can take it away.
Plus it’s certainly going to be amusing if their flagship community engagement event (the output of which has been widely shared by the media in the past) has a giant “fuck spez” banner in it.
Yeah, a lot of people still haven’t gotten this yet. Spez wants reddit to be friendly to stupid people who do stupid things like buy Trump NFCs. This entire thing is about purging the old, tech savvy, liberal/left crowd to make room for Facebook NPCs who are easier to monetize.
You’te just addicted. Let it go.
No, he’s right. If people just “fuck off” instead of protesting, shit doesn’t get done.
Some people don’t just want to “move on” when they’re pissed at yet another example of capitalism ruining a platform that got itself a monopoly because of capitalism. If reddit hadn’t been there when Digg died, somebody else would have. That somebody else might have done things differently than reddit, and now we wouldn’t have this issue where reddit is almost “too big to fail”.
So I may be too lazy to actively protest reddit, but saying my decision to “just fuck off” is the braver one because the protestors are “addicted”… I just disagree.
Capitalism says we’re not supposed to have expectations of the giants who cannibalize their market. I disagree strongly.
Doesn’t reddit not make money though? Like, if traffic resulted in them making money, I’d agree, but everything I’ve heard would indicate using reddit with an adblocker literally costs them money.
Exclusively using reddit to protest should be fine IMO, just don’t contribute anything that isn’t a protest (including voting)
Playing devil’s advocate here - even if you use an ad blocker, Reddit may still benefit if you are contributing to the site with posts, comments, etc. because that helps draw other users in. Even if your traffic costs then money (as it does any site you visit without ads), the net gain might (I don’t know the actual numbers) still be worth it for them. I don’t know how well that math checks out (honestly it probably doesn’t), but that’s why a lot of companies will operate at an extreme loss for the potential to get money in the future (pre-musk Twitter, Uber, etc.)
To be clear I mostly disagree with that reasoning. I think running an ad blocker when you visit reddit and not providing any meaningful contribution (i.e. only protesting) could have an impact if it gains enough continuous traction.
So sad the only way to handle this pr crisis for the seems to be to launch another r/place. Sure I’ll miss that, but using this to spin the narrative is stupid.
First “major event” I’ve missed in 12 years. Fuck them.
i hate spez as much as the next guy, but i don’t think they care at all. everyone who visits reddit is contributing to the traffic numbers that they will show investors, including the people who write “fuck spez” on a page that those investors will never look at
This is still engagement and engagement drives value. Spez wins, unless you leave.
I thought it was already supposed to end
Like anything that has life, there’s stages to death. Like the bloating and rotting, followed by the eventual popping of the corpse as the gasses that have been building up inside bursts out. Followed by the scavengers who will pick the corpse clean.
Sometimes some selfish little fucker will just swipe the whole thing. I had a mole decomposing on my driveway all week, and suddenly Sunday morning it’s just gone! You can’t even tell it was there.
Hey, someone did you a solid 👍.
TBF I initially just left it there because I figured that whatever predator had dropped it would come back, or some scavenger would appreciate the fresh kill. It was already well into decomposition before it vanished, so I’m really curious who likes well-aged mole covered in ants.
Maybe there are people responsible for those kinds of things in your neighbourhood 🤷.
My security camera did not pick up anybody entering my property through the gate that separates the mole graveyard half of my driveway from the front.
Then it must be a creature of some sort… maybe a scavenger of some sort… who knows…
To be honest, I’m not the type of guy to dwell on these sorts of mysteries, I would be like “huh, that’s odd… oh well” and then just keep doing whatever it is I was doing. My wife is more that sort of type, even to the point where she would do a night watch… pisses me off 😒.
I’m guessing it will be magically overwritten a few seconds before it ends.
Did anyone actually care about the last place image after like a week it ended?
Did the last place image say “fuck spez”?
Looks like it’s migrated down to the bottom right least time I looked, lots of little Easter eggs with fuck Spez on it, neat.
I came here to get away from reddit yet every single day there’s posts talking about reddit…
then why are you on c/reddit ya goober
because it’s on the front page…
You’re literally on the c/reddit community
It’s on the front all communities front page. Hard to avoid.
Can’t you just block this community?
Edit: This comment was meant as a reply to another comment but my app posted it as a first level comment 😔
Neat.
This post aged like good sine.
let’s get this to 400 upvotes
