r/place is going well so far...

"Fuck spez" they don't care about. What we should do is a giant Lemmy flag, but that's absolutely not something that would be possible unfortunately.

That would involve using Reddit still so nahh
- I can't wrap my head around how people don't understand that ANY participation from people who "quit" reddit is exactly what reddit wants.
A giant Lemmy flag would be the second best thing. The best thing is user crickets as answer to the admin crickets.
We don't need a flag, just a URL
- Trying to write a URL in /r/place is impossible even for much larger communities.
- It's not worth giving them the engagement that they're begging for.

I like that they were able to coordinate enough to make "fuck spez" so visible (plus the "spez ist ein H*rensohn" = "spez is a son of a b*tch"). I just wish that they focused on the big picture - Spez himself is just a tool (in both senses) for Reddit Inc., and it's the whole corporation that should be screwed over.

Yes, but it's also a symbol. And there seems to be enough of a consensus in the zeitgeist, that that message appears to be somewhat self-organizing as a common sentiment. For something chaotic like /r/place that sort of undercurrent is a boon.
- It's easier to organise people towards a "fuck spez" than the other alternatives, I agree. But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn't do much. And nationalists are already covering the message here and there with their flags.
- Yes they really showed Reddit inc! It will crumble any second I'm sure.

Not bad, but it needs more pro-Rexit messaging. A few highly visible Lemmy links would be nice.

It would be more subversive to stick a huge Apollo logo front and center.
There were several, including a QR code, but Reddit edited them out shortly after they were completed.

It doesn't matter, it's a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.

Meh, any engagement bump will be fleeting, and meanwhile they're going to have another round of Reddit Sucks articles about either a) /r/place being taken over by anti-reddit people or b) Reddit censoring /r/place.
- To wit: https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/redditors-are-already-using-r-place-to-address-api-controversy
Ayep. It's a clever move to get a July traffic bump to offset any losses from the unpopular API etcetera decisions. Then they can point to the overall numbers and say hey, our average visits per user actually went up after we closed the API, so this is proof our users actually love all our shitty recent decisions.

Sorry for the double reply - just sharing a few of the current highlights:

Reddit alien with "spez" on the face, in the guillotine

"fuck spez" in two areas of the canvas

"never forget what was stolen from us! r/savethirdpartyapps"

From the last years, it seems to me that there's less vandalism, and less overall fights for pixels. This might be due to lower engagement.

Heads up that your spoilers are broken (at least on wefwef).
- I tried to fix it, but from Voyager (wefwef.app)'s side it was even worse, so I undid it. It's working fine on the desktop, and following Lemmy's commonmark guide, so I think that the issue is from wefwef's side of the things (check if there's a bug report about this in their github).

r/place is a battleground for hundreds of bots, possibly thousands. I'm done with Reddit.

r/place is a battleground for hundreds of bots, possibly thousands.

Well, yes. It's on reddit.

Friendly reminder not to visit r/place. They are probably doing it now to get traffic to the site. I'm sure they expected this outcome.

Welp, Reddit sure got its user engagement up

"Users"

How long has it been going? Took me about 5 mins to get their stupid app working to place a pixel. Contributed to the f spez.

lol you can just use old.reddit.com/r/place
Roughly for an hour, based on the post announcing it.
On mobile, they're forcing you to use their app, can't do it in a phone browser. So dumb. Clearly grabbing for dowmloads
- I’m guessing that it’s been a popular engagement device in the past that they are using it to drive numbers of connected and participating members. Each pixel perhaps represents a post.
  
  Not a bad idea but very short lived. And the outcome will be an f to spez lol. I’ll buy that t-shirt.

Just remember, lack of engagement will hurt the pockets more than any vandalism ever will.

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit meine Kerle.

Hahaha. "Spez is a son of a removed" from the Germans.

I'm slightly interested in finding out where that QR code is intended to go to, and whether they can keep it intact. Not interested enough to go back to Reddit to find out, though.

If they use a real QR code (instead of the compact data matrix), keeping it functional should be easy. QR has a very robust error-correcting code built into it.
Last time, it was a rickroll.

I see an outline of a QR code in there. How well would that work if someone could just vandalize a single pixel within the code and break it?

QR code error correction

I was curious about this a while ago but there are a bunch of features including error correction for damaged or partial codes. If I remember correctly, it was created for automated manufacturing so it makes sense to have redundancies to minimize delays and downtime.

I suggest we band together and write fediverse on the thing! All are represented, and those not in the know can search it up.

Nah.
- Fair, you do you.

Updated canvas

It's a nerd place for nerd groups and the only thing it shows is who manage to gather the highest number of most terminally online people.