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[-] suckaduck@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

I can't imagine anymore that a reddit admin won't just draw it over

[-] user224@lemmy.sdf.org 15 points 1 year ago

You see, it's made of flags, unlike the previous ones. That could create a problem for them.

[-] aeternum@kbin.social 42 points 1 year ago

You seem to be under the mistaken belief that spez cares.

[-] Anticorp@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] pixelvolt@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago

User engagement is still user engagement, would be best if no one participated at all.

[-] dan@lemm.ee 60 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] socsa@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] Stoneykins@lemmy.one 10 points 1 year ago

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)

[-] Enigma@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

The argument is that it drives the active users and engagement up which allows them to show off those numbers to investors and it looks great for the upcoming IPO.

IMO though, I do believe that Reddit was losing money from 3pa because they’ve refused to say just how many users were using those apps compared to theirs.

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.

[-] Speculater@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

First "major event" I've missed in 12 years. Fuck them.

[-] FIST_FILLET@kbin.social 32 points 1 year ago

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

[-] kimpilled@infosec.pub 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

This is still engagement and engagement drives value. Spez wins, unless you leave.

[-] Hikiru@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If you leave spez wins. The majority of users will stay there and they either don’t care about, don’t understand, or don’t know about spez’s decisions. I’m sure spez would be happy to see all the protesting users who make him look bad leave.

[-] kimpilled@infosec.pub 1 points 1 year ago

Why should spez care? If people never leave and keep using the platform, why should he change his actions at all? Users can bitch and moan as much as they like, but they’re doing it using his app and seeing his ads. Even if the entire site turns into nothing but “fuck spez” posts, that doesn’t matter as long as those posts are being made and read.

[-] fer0n@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago

I thought it was already supposed to end

[-] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

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 👍.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 🤷.

[-] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 0x4E4F@lemmy.rollenspiel.monster -1 points 1 year ago

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 😒.

[-] raltoid@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm guessing it will be magically overwritten with a reddit logo a few seconds before it ends.

[-] AnonymousLlama@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] mojo@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Did anyone actually care about the last place image after like a week it ended?

[-] glibg10b@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Did the last place image say "fuck spez"?

[-] masquenox@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago
[-] Sphks@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

This post aged like good sine.

[-] kplaceholder@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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 😔

let's get this to 400 upvotes

[-] harpuajim@lemmy.ml -2 points 1 year ago

I came here to get away from reddit yet every single day there's posts talking about reddit...

[-] moosetwin@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

then why are you on c/reddit ya goober

[-] harpuajim@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

because it's on the front page...

[-] cyclohexane@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

You're literally on the c/reddit community

[-] harpuajim@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago

It's on the front all communities front page. Hard to avoid.

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