I have a Place for Reddit,
in my toilet
Activate the ‘fuck spez’ detection algorithm. Omg, it’s full of dicks
Last year’s r/place event was beautiful and just amazing overall. The communities all coordinated and I was really taken aback by the final product. How this year’s one will turn out is anybody’s guess. I’m pretty sure even Spez is aware of this, so this just looks like a desperate attempt to drive engagement, even if most of it is negative.
“sunsetting” is such an ugly euphemism for “killing”. On the other hand, I am sunsetting Reddit right now. Deleted all my posts and comments, left all the subreddits apart from the drama ones to keep informed about the latest Reddit Inc fuckups. I have a feeling they are not done alienating their userbase yet.
I get all my news about reddit inc fuckups from the fediverse now.
The only good news may be that the change to the pixelated logo is probably temporary, to hype /r/place . But making that change at the same time as unlocking premium logos was an extremely bad decision. They are very good at making bad decisions, though.
You should have Premium to participate. Keeps al sane folks away.
I will leave that r/Place completely alone and not even look at it. I am close to 5 weeks sober from Reddit and nothing that will happen there will bring me back. The best thing that can happen is no one participating, not even a f*ck spez picture, just an empty white page, not even Canada trying to get their flag on it.
I have less discipline than you, and still check periodically, specifically /r/news and /r/worldnews but I see that in doubt it less and less and it feels like lemmy/kbin communities is growing and posts are becoming more active.
I think though, that because it is decentralized, there should be a mechanism to group communities to prevent the fragmentation. So then subscribing to the group would subscribe to multiple communities.
This is hilarious, it’s going to get the shit griefed out of it.
How long until people employ bots to create burner accounts and deface r/place.
I’m expecting tonnes of “fuck Spez” graffiti, along with some NSFW stuff.
This sounds desperate. Like, their monthly traffic stats must be bad and they recognize that r/place drove traffic and this will hide the dip in traffic.
Let’s change “r/…” to “c/…” for existing Lemmy communities!
Lmao the header image on their modnews post about it appears to have a pixelated dumpster fire.
Can’t make this shit up
Reject r/place. Embrace pxls space
Real OGs remember drawball. the birthplace of polandball.
I love projects like this, but I wish we could recapture the limited nature of place along with the sheer amount of engagement. I have no idea how it would work, but I’d love to see large scale limited time events like this take place with instance administrator support and integration into the fediverse somehow.
I’ve seen it done at geek conventions, to excellent effect. They generally live on a big screen, in the bar, at such events.
Though they can degenerate into ego wars, in amusing ways. One event had to ask people to limit using external systems to access the pixel wall in the bar. Someone used AWS to run animations on it. It tied up 2/3 of the entire event’s fibre backbone, still they killed it’s access. I think it was a 10Gb fibre setup. So they effectively DOSed it.
I’d call it the FediCanvas. Could be a regular event from all over the fediverse.
What about “Canverse?”
I thought r/place turned into BattleBots guarding their own pixels at the end, and you can get banned for placing the wrong pixel at the wrong place.
Maybe they are using this to bait out and ban any old accounts that will try to vandalize r/place before the IPO? The timing is very suspect, I don’t think it’s as simple as increasing user engagement.
Their going hard on the whole “bad publicity is also publicity”
