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    It warms my heart to see so much fuck spez amidst the normal nation-state flag spam.

    Thank you for the screenshot so I don’t have to give Reddit any traffic.

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    Classic tactic. Let em rant in a special “freedom zone” and do nothing else. I know, obvious, but still maddening. I left reddit behind forever.

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      Yeah there is no way they didn’t intend this when they opened it back up. It’s protest theatre, give them a punching bag so they don’t stir up real shit.

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        Being enraged is also being engaged (see Fox News).

        So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.

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          Exactly my thoughts. They saw a drop in traffic this month after the API changes killed 3rd party apps and just want to boost this month’s numbers so it doesn’t hurt their valuation and upcoming IPO further.

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          So this was a great tactic because all the people that could have left reddit are still there yelling into the void.

          I feel like those people are pretty dumb. Like, if they could all just leave and go elsewhere, they’d be much better off than yelling in circles and not getting anything accomplished.

          The website is obviously run by a crazy fuckhead CEO, so might as well go elsewhere - especially somewhere decentralized where that can’t be a problem.

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    well this is going about as well as I thought. “u/spez ist ein Hurensohn” made me laugh

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    They’re doing r/place again? Didn’t they just have one last year or something? I thought it was supposed to be once every five years event, much like somebody telling spez he is loved.

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        “even though mods hate us, everyone else loves reddit. See these recent spikes in user engagement”

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        It can only be accessed through their mobile app, or on the web with the new interface (old.reddit.com won’t work).

        They don’t care what people are putting on the board, it’s still an increase in people engaging with the new interface and the official app.

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          Just like they don’t care about r/pics turning into John Oliver only. It pumps up the numbers, so they can show advertisers and investors a rosy outlook.

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    I’d rather see more “fuck Reddit” on there than spez. Spez isn’t the only one to blame for their issues, he’s just been at the forefront. He’ll get his golden parachute and bounce if all this anger is directly specifically towards him. My 3 pennies

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    Finding the right time for r/place to return proved to be a challenge – but hey, what better time to offer a blank canvas to our communities than when our users and mods are at their most passionate… right?

    This is the most blatantly obvious “please boost our subscriber numbers” statement I’ve ever seen without directly calling for it.

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    That’s crazy I was just thinking a few days ago how funny it would be if they decided to do it again, and fuck u/spez got plastered all over it. Surreal that reality is a step ahead of me.

    r/place from 2017 was one of the things that really pulled me into Reddit. I loved the idea and I appreciated the strong community engagement with it.

    2022 was fun but disappointing to see mostly just MORE flags and big douchy streamers covering up some of the actually decent artwork with their logos.

    And now again in 2023? I predict there’s no way this isn’t a dumpster fire and a big bold fuck spez will end up on the final version.

    Someone else mentioned it below but we should REALLY use this opportunity to get more Lemmy exposure on there.

    What subs do you think would be most on board? redditalternatives? that modcoordinator one? I will sign up as a pixel trooper, this could help spread awareness on how far Reddit sentiment has fallen.

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    Inb4 every black pixel gets a warning that they’ll be replaced by a different user. Repeat black pixel posters get perma banned without warning.

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    Saying “Fuck u/Spez” on Reddit is like protesting McDonald’s by buying BigMacs.

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      It seems like going to McDonald’s and handing out flyers. It might briefly make McDonald’s look more popular but in the long run it could peel away customers.

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      True, we should advertise federated alternatives instead. Can we make a Lemmy icon with “Lemmy” next to it somehow?

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      People just want to consume mindless entertainment. I’m extremely jaded over the whole thing and I’ll be very glad to be proven wrong, but I betcha regular users will participate as usual and drown out any form of protest.

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        Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It’s still going but it’s not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.

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        Sure, but at the same time all of the casual redditors who somehow weren’t aware of the controversy (the ones making threads asking who spez is, for example) are now going to learn more about the controversy and be informed enough to make their own decisions on continuing to use the site. For the short term their engagement will go up but it’s very possible that their long-term engagement drops even further after this decision