It’s getting late and we only have 2-3 people left. We need help, come over to /r/place and help defend out banner at -811,14. You can join the conversation at https://matrix.to/#/#lemmyplace:data.haus
Don’t go on Reddit
I’m going to go to bed in about an hour or 2 and am running 4 out of the 5 or 6 of the accounts we have online. I’m a bit worried that we will lose it as we have the last couple times we got a banner going.
Admins will just remove what they dont like anyhow.
Hasn’t happened much so far.
Really makes you think, doesn’t it?
What about the guillotine?
Any traffic on Reddit or engagement with anything they’re doing is bad. Quit visiting r/place. All you’re doing is padding numbers for their IPO stats.
There is no point in trying,You can’t argue with morons. Just let the think they won and maybe they will just go back to reddit.
I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.
Depends, they already ramp up “traffic” with bots, so just advertising without paying hurts them more in the long term.
I think that getting “fuck u/spez” and ads for the competition all over it is a big win, personally. They are getting a bunch of negative press from this.
You want to give Reddit bad press? Stop posting links to Lemmy. Start posting links to fetish porn.
There are people doing that sorta stuff too if you wanna join them. Some QR codes up there.
What press are we talking about? For shareholders, it’s all about people engaging with Reddit so they can use machine learning to target ads to people. r/place is an experiment in how to encourage that engagement to make more money for shareholders.
The best way to influence the IPO is not to engage.
Now if you could set up a huge bot-net and make the whole thing an obscene picture it will make impact. But I doubt that’s legal and all so don’t do that. Staying off seems to work for me, but I need some filter to remove that site from links here. It’s not very interesting for me to know what happens there. If it was I’d be there
There’s no such thing as bad press. All negative press means is that people are talking about it and that’s engagement.
It’s a more modern type of marketing that could be considered controversial marketing. Gets people talking, and it works unfortunately.
Here I am engaging with you because of it.
An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spez is, why that’s relevant, what a third party app means, what an API is. If you attempted to start to explain that, they’d just start ignoring your voice as if it were some random noise.
They’ll check the company valuation, their traffic, how much they charge for ads, where they’re located, and will invest or not based on that.
Kinda true but we also know that advertisers can be very picky about having their content displayed next to sensitive content or even profanity. So seeing a guillotine and fuck spez written all over Place on Day 1 was pretty cool
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This is stupid to me. You really think advertisers look only at the stats and not the content? Having been part of trans who had to decide “who to spend our money on” - the content matters A LOT
The content matters.
The 1% of power users complaining about executive decisions that improve profitability doesn’t even come close to mattering.
An investment firm executive will have zero clue about what the hell a spe
An investment firm executive makes it their business to know everything there is to know about negative press (or anything else that could jeopardize their management of an IPO), which this campaign is generating huge amounts of…
'member that site b used to draw swastikas on? how about we make it a time limited fomo event to drive metrics? brilliant right?
Yeah, I’ve never engaged with this shit and won’t start now I’m not even on the site.
Stop engaging in Reddit. It’s time to move on.
I’m going to buy this beer and pour it out in protest…
I’m going to buy these books and burn them in protest…
I’m going to log into Reddit and place a stern message on /r/place in protest…
Do you see the pattern…
We haven’t tried burning it?
Reddit already is a dumpster fire.
Good luck to anyone doing it but the whole reason I’m on Lemmy is because I refuse to use reddit’s garbage app. I’m not gonna start now.
You can do it on the web. Using the app only for /r/place isn’t so bad. I’d never use it for anything else.
Only if you already have the app; otherwise you’re bumping up the number of app downloads in the immediate aftermath of the API changes, which is probably exactly what they want to see.
So use the web site.
Is it available on old.reddit? A lot of people here who refuse to give reddit traffic in the first place also prefer old.reddit and don’t want to use the new interface.
They aren’t allowing it on old.Reddit. It’s seriously just a plot to drive as much traffic as possible to the versions of the sites that’s been monetized to hell
On the plus side, having the app installed means every time it updates I can refresh my 1-star review.
Meh. You do you, but I’m happy here and don’t want to give Reddit any traffic.
No. Reddit is dead to me.
You continue to help boost user engagement metrics. Just what the IPO needs.
Fuck /r/place.
That’s kind of the point.
honestly can’t be bothered. Let reddit fester, the view is great from here
edit: but also do what you want! ;)
I think it’s understandable that some of the people who spent a lot of time on Reddit over the years want to leave a tiny message as a final goodbye, and this is a great opportunity to do so. Kind of neat really. :)
I’d consider throwing in a pixel if I had a verified account on there.
But the whole point of coming here is I didn’t want to use the website and give them engagement.
I think part of the problem is that when everyone is pulling in different directions, the effect of people like me boycotting using Reddit entirely to try to make some kind of dent in their use statistics basically ends up doing nothing.
If you’re “defending” your banner, meaning refreshing and adding inputs on a regular basis, you’re providing a ton more engagement, views, and clicks, as well as getting other Reddit users more entrenched in their defense of their stupid website, than any other possible activity you could do on that site. So thanks, I guess.
The worst case scenario for r/place is a world where everyone just sits in their corner after populating it at the start. Zero stories, boring, people no longer want to engage. What you’re doing? Dramatic gold.
Hate-gagement is still engagement
Wait, so it’s r/place no longer a 24 hour thing? I thought it would have ended 2 days ago
The first time I think it lasted 24 hours (April fool’s day)
The second time (last time) it lasted for three days I think.
Earning my keep.
Yes by helping Reddit
Or telling those on Reddit to join Lemmy.
Do you not know how marketing works?
The point is that it’s being defended against. That’s the whole point of this post. So your audience are people who are already entrenched against the fediverse, being faced with a Lemmy invasion. And they’re the kinds of people who relish these Reddit activities in the first place.
Do you think engaging with them in this incredibly superficial way is going to suddenly change their minds?
Or do you maybe think it might instead reinforce their cognitive biases now that they’ve spent a day and a half “defending” r/place against the militant minority?
We are already here. Anyone left on Reddit isn’t willing to stop engaging. There was a huge campaign to get everyone over here already and it worked, it’s why I’m here. A tiny banner on a huge canvas looked at by only Reddit diehards won’t change anything. Mho.
Thank goodness it’s just your opinion.
