It also successfully distracted the userbase and isolated their protests from the rest of the site.
People make fun of Place but I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
Certainly drove their use statistics up a lot, which helps more than the incendiary messaging hurts them (IMO).
Eh, I think this can work like sponsored messages on YouTube videos: probably not immediately a lot of clicks on the product but over time more and more people recognize it and know what it is. And I like to think that over time Spez will be recognized as the soulless fucker who is hated by the very community he is trying to sell. Reddit lost a lot of charm in the last couple of months, even more than was already lost before and his name is tied to the whole thing. I hope!
Name recognition is a big thing. From now on, anything Spez announces will be dampened slightly simply by the fact that he announced it. Of course, Spez could just run the company without much fuss and stay out of the spotlight but he's too egotistical for that.
Especially with the massive number of bots, it helps get user and activity numbers up a lot
And critically, more ad hits.
They also screwed themselves over by playing the r/place trump card so soon after the last iteration in 2022. Rather than doing it to create a cool event to experience once every few years, they did it to drive engagement on Reddit. That's made people lose interest and even if it's another 5 years before the next one, many of them won't come back. It's a self-acknowledgement that the peak reddit era is finished and wouldn't have happened without the prior backlash against their enshittification. It's the type of thing that sets up the conditions for a death spiral, because they've resorted to tricks to get people to use the site and eventually they'll run out of tricks.
I wonder what the federated version of r/place would look like. It should not be too hard to create a collaborative pixel board and accept input from anywhere in the fediverse. But we would need to come up with some cool fedi spin. A chessboard, maybe, where every server has a square?
In the future, when the fediverse is more mature, it would be cool to create something.
It should not be too hard to create a collaborative pixel board and accept input from anywhere in the fediverse.
That's a super optimistic viewpoint. Handling that kind of stuff is actually a pretty challenging technical problem. Reddit themselves wrote a nice technical blog post about the how they built r/place and the challenges associated with it. Dealing with synchronization issues across federated instances makes the problem quite a bit more difficult.
Huh, I didn’t know that the code base for r/place was open sourced.
The way the Lemmy version of r/place would look like would depend on which other servers your server is federated with. It's a very postmodern approach where there is no single view of the thing for everyone
All the images are so clean. Like if they were all created by well coordinated robots.
They are largely the result of scripts battling other scripts.
r/place brings all the bots to the yard.
And spez will always be a hurensohn no matter what.
SPRICH
ICH SPRECHE.
(Im all worried I didn't conjugate that right)
Man I just moved to Germany and the amount I hear "bitte?" because my conjugation and accent. Really proud of myself for managing a meeting setting up my account at the Stadtwerke all in German though.
I've figured out a trick with ein, eine, einen. It's a bit more expensive, but instead of "ein/e/n Bier," I say "zwei Bier." Works every time.
We all want to have an immortal legacy. Any good he's ever done is going to be overshadowed.
You can build 1000 bridges and fuck one clown. You won't be known as a bridge builder but a clown fucker.
Always heard it as goats. There's probably some sexy clowns out there.
stupid sexy clowns
Nice and all, but pretty pointless if you stay there after.
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I like how it started with a smaller Fuck Spez until some group clearly went "nah, we need to go bigger"
That is just beautiful to watch.
3 minutes later
Lol
I was against giving them the engagement but this is goooood
The engagement is fleeting but the spoiling of the narrative is forever.
Never 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.
Crimes only count if poor people do them
They screwed over so many people. Losing the ability to search your own comment history with Camas / Push Shift screwed me out of archiving some of my older write-ups and valuable conversations.
Admins really took a nose-dive in the last year especially. They royally screwed my account over, blatantly wrongly banning my main account then using that false-ban as justification to permanently-ban me months later.
All the while they uphold objectively-racist comments despite several reports. Fucking weird.
I got temp banned for “report abuse” when I’ve only ever reported anything that clearly broke the sitewide rules. Just assumed it was some kinda mistake. When it happened a 2nd time I decided not to bother anymore. Now I consider my account read-only and if I want to post content I use Lemmy.
What's the difference?
... And just like that, Reddit is down site-wide. Awfully convenient.
Just a small database patch, don’t mind spez doing some deleteItem calls.
Thanks for everybody helping us. Glad to be a a part of it. For those who don't know. Lemmy got a nice banner at the center of the map. We also took part of the Fuck Spez project.
https://lemm.ee/post/2028359
You can check our history of posts from !place@lemm.ee
Glorious.
I guess spez won't do another one
So many people used reddit just to create this. Looks like success to me.
A lot of people, but a motherboard more bots.
HAHAHAHAHA
Reddit admins right now
beautiful
Well the join lemmy ad made it until the end at least
Based! Hopefully everyone can abandon Reddit soon
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