Please see https://sh.itjust.works/post/1429723 for more discussion about our ad.

The words “f*ck u/spez” have been spammed all over r/place. This shows that many people on Reddit is frustrated with u/spez’s antics, but either don’t know that there is an alternative platform or don’t want to leave for an underpopulated community. I was thinking, maybe we should draw a Lemmy mascot along with “join-lemmy.org”? We could place our drawing over maybe 20 "fuck u/spez"es that there are already hundreds of? Or if fighting an angry mob trying to defend their “fuck u/spez” is too difficult, we could also wait for the canvas expansion which is very very likely happen in a couple of days.

My vision is that this will help the Fediverse grow. Currently, not much Redditors know what Lemmy is, even among the ones that are constantly voicing their complaints. Sure, it might increase Reddits engagement metrics in the short run, but in the long run, this will benefit Lemmy and eventually hurt Reddit.

If you have any design for our Lemmy ad, please do put it in the comments!

  • NOT_RICK@lemmy.worldEnglish
    271·
    1 year ago

    I’m done with giving Reddit any engagement metrics to point to for some bullshit IPO

    • jopepa@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      I think a lot of people are, too. Sure there are plenty of IS_RICKs that are getting the message out, but it’s not as many as last time and next time will be even less. Once searching on the fediverse gets better I won’t even miss it.

  • JJROKCZ@lemmy.worldEnglish
    122·
    1 year ago

    No, just stop giving them traffic. They only turned place back on so people would boost traffic numbers with the protest and when it’s done they can just delete the pixels they don’t want and show the investors the huge spike in traffic from the event

  • Lennvor@lemmy.worldEnglish
    61·
    1 year ago

    I agree and think this is a good idea - I reposted a long comment like five times making an argument for why it was and I won’t repost it again but it got quite a bit of pushback and engagement on this thread in this forum:

    https://lemmy.world/comment/1544467

    (are there permalinks to comments & comment threads on Lemmy ?)

    Paging @donnachaidh@lemmy.world, who seemed interested.

    A reference to sub.rehab could also be cool.

    • randint@feddit.nlOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thank you. I read your comment. Leaving reddit certainly is a great way of protest, but it would mean nothing if only less than 1% left.

      BTW I’m also curious whether there’s a way to link to a comment that upon clicking brings the user to the comment on their instance, or if there’s something you can do to find the same comment that is on another instance without searching it on your own instance.