Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.

  • @Conowelle@lemmy.ca
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    602 years ago

    I was looking forward to the next version of r/place in a couple years. Now it’s just utterly pathetic pandering to attempt to bring disaffected users back to the site

      • @Boinketh@lemm.ee
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        2 years ago

        I’ve simply stopped generating content for them. Some of the third party apps still work without a subscription (probably rate-limited), so while I mostly browse Lemmy, I switch to Reddit when Lemmy’s feed runs out and just don’t add any comments or posts and don’t vote on anything. That way, because they get no ad revenue from me, I’m not benefitting the company in any way. I see no reason to avoid consuming content created by other people and posted online, regardless of what platform they use.

      • @Conowelle@lemmy.ca
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        62 years ago

        Neither am I, I do kinda wanna know the general consensus of this, cause r/place was cool when it was on April 1st after several years between, now it’s just over a year in between on a random Wednesday.

        • @BarrelAgedBoredom@lemmy.world
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          22 years ago

          Someone posted a reddit link to the announcement earlier. The comments were some variation of “bring back.third party apps”, “API”, “fuck /u/spez”, “this is obvious pandering to drive traffic” or debates about how best to vandalize the canvas. And a lot of German people saying German things for some reason lol. The comments there are actually pretty similar to the comments in this thread, minus the Germans

  • Televise
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    532 years ago

    The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

  • @Geek_King@lemmy.world
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    2182 years ago

    That doesn’t seem like a prudent idea.

    “Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we’ve made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!”

  • FuglyDuck
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    2 years ago

    So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?

    Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time

    • @qooqie@lemmy.world
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      1282 years ago

      That would require logging into Reddit. I have a feeling this is to boost clicks for a really poor months performance so they can say “look 3rd party apps being dead is fine!”

      • LUHG
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        82 years ago

        True but surely a full page spez hate graphic wouldn’t do well for them.

        • @graphite@lemmy.world
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          2 years ago

          Lol. It wouldn’t make a dent.

          Truth is the people shouting “fuck Spez” is a small minority.

          Everyone knows about Reddit. Not very many are that invested to care.

          • LUHG
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            22 years ago

            Looks pretty fuck spez to me pal.

      • @teuast@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        this is their cnn trump town hall. ten bucks says traffic spikes for /r/place and then drops below pre-/r/place levels.

      • justhach
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        2 years ago

        Ding ding ding

        I mean, its pretty transparent attempt by spez to boost.interactions with the site, but that won’t stop people from doing exactly what spez wants them to do.

  • Gnome
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    212 years ago

    Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won’t participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I’m happy to be here with y’all.

  • steve228uk
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    42 years ago

    I’m gonna be cracking out the popcorn for this one.

  • Bappity
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    352 years ago

    I KNEW IT LOL
    I thought that they’d try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the site

  • @Tibert@compuverse.uk
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    112 years ago

    Let’s wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will “cheat” and remove it before it stays too long.

    And maybe it will even be removed from the “public” data.