r/place 2023 in a nutshell

How many of those people are still gonna be using the site though?

It doesn't matter how loud you scream if you won't actually do anything about it.

Best view I can take on that is that I can't stop others from continuing to use the site, but I can stop myself from using it.

Lemmy has proven to be a satisfactory replacement that successfully keeps me from going back.
It's the same with people shitting on twitter and elon, and then spend the next 3 hours on twitter
It’s insane that it’s been some weeks since the API changes and axing of the third party apps. Yet r place has shown people are still willing to use Reddit after all this time and proclaiming “fuck spez”
- Time and time again, redditors have proved they have no self-control and their actions are as deep as a puddle. They think that by making a silly banner on reddit they are actually making a difference instead of quitting reddit outright. Addiction is a powerful thing, even to social media.
After the api changes I noticed many of the subs were mere shells of their former selves, even ones with no c/ counterparts yet
- IMHO reddit's been declining for quite a while. The only reason it was less noticeable was repost/comment bots.
  
  I mean, a subreddit like /r/videos which claimed to have 30 millions subscribers, but the top post would often have no more than 200 upvotes.
  
  Very little original content either. Askreddit is mostly reposts, elsewhere it's reposts from facebook, twitter and snapchat. You notice the decline less when you're on reddit daily. Take a longer break, and it becomes more noticeable.
  
  Sure there are less people here, but at least you know you're likely interacting with a human. On reddit I'd often see people interacting with comment bots who'd copy pasted the top comment.
  
  Pretty depressing if interacting with a bot is what you do to fulfill the human need for social connection and validation.
- I noticed r/all has changed drastically and showing less popular subs.
Everyone clapping their own backs by helping to write fuck spez in a Reddit game sure is something. Just childish.

I'm thinking about going back, at least as a site to visit between all these new 'reddit-likes', but I'm not going to be yelling like a goddamn child like I'd be above it. Sure, criticism I'll give if warranted but that goes with everything.
- If only this effort was used to make a giant banner of some Reddit alternatives - Lemmy, yes, but even something else like Kbin, Tildes, Squabbles, etc., just anything to get people to actually move somewhere else and put a tiny crack in the face of Reddit's titanic forum almost-monopoly.

Eh. Redditors have been saying "Fuck Spez" for a lot longer than that. I imagine most are fine with thwarting authority figures even if they don't know why. If they are still regular users saying "fuck spez" has practically no effect. They are still working at being a diligent little product.

Never participated in r/place. They did it purely to boost their upcoming IPO. And it looks like they succeeded, at least on paper. They got a massive influx of fake accounts, or accounts that were dormant. Doesn’t mean they have new people coming in but it gives the appearance. Similar to Meta’s threads, where most are coming from Instagram.

If the users have a contained place to vent their anger, then they're not leaving the site. Afterwards everyone's got whatever anger was there out of their system. I doubt the "fuck spez" comments hurt reddit at all, and probably barely made him feel bad.

I doubt the “fuck spez” comments hurt reddit at all

Eh. Would you buy stocks/ads for a platform where the latest iteration of their most engaging and loved event was very heavily dedicated to expressing disapproval of the leadership? A platform that literally holds itself together thanks to the effort of that same complaining community?

Hell, at that point I’d buy ads on Facebook where much less users block them and they’re much more gullible.
- Are you sure about that? Since when has having an unlikable cnt EVER hurt an actual company?? Sure, if they're a lying cnt like Elizabeth Holms or the Crypto bro without an actual product, but if they're a lying c*nt who still has a functioning product, they're treated like Elon Musk and fail UPWARDS.
- Edit: Ugh, double-post and I cannot find the delete in this crappy app... Ugh the growing pains of fresh tech, like missing basic features...
To add to this very good point, it also fosters a sense of community. Nothing brings people together like hating a CEO. And hey, if you feel like part of a community, you're less likely to leave.

Still not enough. Too much engagement and people doing actual art pieces.

If you think about it this might ne an attempt to get more activity on their site in order to justify usage on whatever meeting is coming up ahead of that IPO I heard.

People say this like potential shareholders will just ignore the massive Fuck Spez banner and bad reddit news that's been all over traditional media.

More space was taken up by flags than by protests.

Don't care about Reddit, move on.

Let the legacy of the internet boy die with the last decency it has.

Definitely not what happened lol. Like a few people tried to protest and were quickly overrun by redditors batchesting over their favorite reddit communities.

They really showed spez, by giving them traffic and engagements to boost their IPO value! Gottem! We did it Reddit!

Uhh… at the start of every canvas expansion it was full of “fuck spez”s, during the center days every flag was plastered with them and in the last expansion they wrote a huge, 147k-pixel one that was the third biggest art of the entire canvas and the biggest text-art of the history of place, which lasted until the end where the entire canvas got filled with a white “fuck spez” that stayed on for an hour. Not even counting all the other protests like random porn and the guillotine where admins had to step in.

No, definitely not just “a few people”.