I think you're right that the best response is no response, but the protests do have an effect beside driving traffic. Investors won't want to be involved in a company at war with its userbase, so if protests are loud and long enough it could mess us reddits IPO plans. So for the users who just aren't ready to give up reddit, spamming protest comments is probably their best bet.

And if people DO start being problematic, reddit mods will just start erasing things by hand. They were spotted doing it last year.

Honestly, the correct way to protest would be to just spam KBIN and Lemmy everywhere in /r/place.

Yup. The whole premise of a social media platform is to stay relevant. Ignoring it altogether is the best method to kill it off.

All the protests will do nothing but drive traffic.

Which is the EXACT reason they're doing it again all of sudden. This was not scheduled by any means but the dumpster fire for the past weeks causes them to grasp for straws. It's a pathetic attempt to get users back that their psychopathic methods drove away.

If we can drive traffic away from Reddit afterwards then isn't that a better response?

Is there somewhere I can watch it without giving Reddit any traffic, I wonder?

The third is pure desperation, its not even April 1st.

The whole platform became a joke though, so there's that.

That’s what I was thinking, they must be hurting to do r/place out of the blue like this

I forgot about the censorship that was horrible

I didn't participate in the second one. What kinds of censorship happened?

I’m pretty sure the second one was where we did the iconic “he laughed” panel from One Piece - so not a total loss IMO.

Didn't they do that last time? I recall entire sections instantly reset when porn was being constructed.

I bet they have some bots around to replace anything bad. There were some brief NSFW stuff last time they did this that got overwritten really really quick and suddenly.

Best to just ignore.it. they are doing this to cause engagement numbers to go.up. the best protest is a damp.squib of indifference

"I don't hate you....that requires you to enter my mind...I just do not think about you at all"

If you log on even to vandalise, it counts as a logon for this quarters metrics

Interesting. Using their platform against them?

reddit will set up their own bot to cover up any "fuck u/spez" that appears

I don’t really see a need for it to be integrated and federated. Someone can just make a normal website and post a link.

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Dunno, but there's always pxls space.