Reddit knew this was going to happen if they brought r/place back, right ?
Reddit knew this was going to happen if they brought r/place back, right ?
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Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.
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Yeah, this was well played from reddit, they knew that r/place was one of the most popular things reddit ever did, so luring people back with it is excellent plan. They don't care shit about the fuck spez texts, they can now say that they broke engagement records, even without third party api's.
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"Fuck" is not good for advertisers.
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Sure, American advertisers don't like that, but foul language is all over Reddit, so that's not something that will drive advertisers away that would otherwise consider advertising on Reddit.
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Yeah, so true as long as there's engagement ,that's all that matters to them.
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Right? It reminds me of those popular twitter right wingers that get exposure from negative publicity. People feel so smug and proud that they "dunked" on this loser who would otherwise be ignored and forgotten and instead they amplify and magnify the message.
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Start changing all the /r/ subreddit advertisements to /c/. That's the most strategic way to send the message.
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That's very clever.
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I believe you mean /m/
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I like kbin, but there's no mobile apps for it (writing one, but I can't find any accurate API documentation)
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Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.
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Very onbrand for the french
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They are aiming for this as a distraction
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They've already used one CEO as a fall guy (er... fall gal). Not that I'm a fan, but do we really think spez is the one person in charge of all the stuff going down?
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Yes and no. CEOs do have autonomy but in a case like Reddit they are also beholden to the Board of Directors. They make commitments/predictions/projections for the board all toward the ultimate end of working toward a high return on investment for the members of the board and other shareholders. The CEO is then responsible to make these things come true and has autonomy to do things as he sees fit. But if the board has enough power, in any case where they don’t like how the CEO is performing, they will eventually vote to remove him.
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The text in the german flag area translates to
u/spez is a son of a removed
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You can swear on the internet. Violence? Gore? No problem!
A bad word? Son of a removed, we're all going to die.
Edit: Wtf, there is a swear filter? Fuck.
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What pearl clutching son of a removed at lemmy.ml decided its users were too fragile to hear the word "removed"? And here's the real question, can you read ot or does it censor mine? Because if you can read it then what's the point of censoring your own users?
Edit: yeah Kbin lets you say it.
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Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
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Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
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Kyle's mom's a removed...
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looks like tankies love censorship, who would have guessed
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u/spez is a son of bïtch
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Is b word not allowed on lemmy.ml?
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For anyone who wants to swear in german, just say
who rain zone
But fast
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I'd say ran is a bit closer than rain, but either way, that's still very English German.
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male descendant of a prostitute.
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"Offspring of a harlot"
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No, it translate to “son of a prostitute”.
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What a joke is this the US? For europeans these swear words are fine. u/spez ist ein HÜR3ns0hn
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The flags are so braindead. Who gives a fuck about your country?
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Normally, I would agree with you. But, I would like to offer a different point of view simply because this is a platform on the internet where the vast majority of the users seem to be from the US.
On a project like r/place, I kind of see that as a showing of people saying hey, we use this site, we are here everyday, there's lots of us, and we're from this country!
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um, excuse me sweaty, but imaginary lines on the earth are the most important thing imaginable and we must worship them!
also: /s because i am not being serious
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Some people are proud, or want to show representation
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And as a citizen of one of these countries I say that's fucking dumb.
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Yeah, I find it frightening. It indicates a lot of blind nationalism on a fairly passionate level. Nothing good comes from that.
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Blind nationalism is certainly bad, but I don't really think that's the reason all the flags are so numerous and big:
- Your average redditor is on r/place and wants to place a dot on something. However, you can imagine they participate casually and aren't joining any of the designated subreddits or whatever to coordinate their effort. So what is the lowest hanging fruit they can do to place a dot?
- They can fix or contribute to an already existing artwork. However, to do that they already need to know what the artwork is supposed to look like. Well, flags are well known and generally easy to reproduce
- In fact, some flags, such as Germany or France, are endlessly reproducable, and you can just keep infinitely expanding horizontally or vertically, contributing to the size of these monstrosities
- But maybe you still want to contribute to something that resonates with you, instead of just a blue corner or a black void. Maybe lots of communities want to put artwork on place, but your average user will still probably resonate more with their identity as a German or American more than their identity as a subscriber of r/aww
- Finally, all of these factors spiral. Maybe a reddit user is a fan of r/HydroHomies, and it just so happens they're making an icon. But the user doesn't know about this because it's too small to pick out, and if they did they're afraid they'd just mess up the design, but the flag of Germany is right there, so might as fill in the bits on the end of the rectangle that aren't straight yet.
TL;DR: r/place is just conducive to flags. also i had 10 mins to burn so i wrote all this for some reason idk
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Higher traffic stats means higher user engagement. It helps with higher valuation for the IPO.
If you want to hurt them, remove your content, do a GDPR request, and disengage. Focus on the Fediverse instead.
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The timing, the bots, the board, everything about this edition just feels weird... Definitely doesn't spark the same joy as earlier editions. Could've expected this ofcourse, just sad that a
gooddecent thing is burning to ground-
I completely don't care about this 3rd edition... first and second one I placed pixel every 5 minutes, this one I just saw it because of this post and the result is pathetic
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Only reason to bring r/pics now instead of April 1st was to drive the engagement, and by looks of it Reddit succeeded immensely in that.
They baited people and everyone bit it.
I don't think anyone at Reddit cares what message is passed through this as long as they get traffic.
They are like Velma of social media
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They only waited one year when we had to wait 5 years for the previous one. No they're fooling us
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I wonder if there are any shared canvas things like this outside of Reddit? The idea is pretty neat.
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There was a website that did this like 20 years ago. Hell if I can find it. Was called something like the one million project.
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The Million Dollar Homepage. Some guy made a 1000x1000 canvas and sold every pixel for $1. Lots of dot-com tech companies bought little banners and stuff.
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I remember Drawball being pretty popular on 4chan back in the mid 2000s. It was a lot of fun.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/drawball
Someone has done a similar thing here: https://drawball.io
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What is this supposed to accomplish?
"Hey Spez, we're going to use your site, consume the ads you give us, pay for useless premium features, drive up engagement, and participate in your meaningless events but fuck you so take that" - average Redditor
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oh god it's pathetic... I remember very well the first r/place, then the second one was super cool too! But this one, wow, super pathetic :-( shame on reddit...
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I mean employees aren't dumb and any opportunity to make management look stupid for stupid decisions that likely cost themselves (remember they get stock) money they will 100% take.
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Going about as I expected.
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I never actually visited r/place, but it seems like it's just drawball copied by Reddit. Is that accurate?
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That's what I don't get. How could they think that this wouldn't happen?
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I'm not sure I totally get it, what happened?
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/r/places is a thing on Reddit where people cooperate to make art. People are using that opportunity to lambast Reddit at Reddit's expense
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Reddit does not care. It's just engagement for them.
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Nope. They have brought in the corporate ghoul consultants. There is no context or feeling the situation. Just "oh, this was really popular last time, let's continue milking it, what could go wrong".
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