Well stop doing your part. Stop interacting with Reddit. They are almost certainly doing Place right now just to boost their numbers and you’re falling for it
Yeah, but in exchange for a brief flurry of engagement they have to put up with another wave of articles about angry reddit user protests:
https://techcrunch.com/2023/07/20/redditors-are-already-using-r-place-to-address-api-controversy/
“Oh no, anyways…”
Says the Reddit execs as they show off their numbers to VCs as they prepare for their IPO
Investors care about the potential for future growth and thus future increased profits. They don't give a shit about what a company is doing today, except to the extent it is predictive of the future. Investors look at this and see lots of activity of users who actively hate the company, that's not future growth.
To take an unfortunate example, imagine if Bud Light had a bump in sales because a bunch of right wing lunatics were buying extra just so they could make videos of them throwing away, shooting, blowing up, or otherwise destroying the beer while vowing never to drink it again. Does an investor look at that bump in sales and say "oh neat, look how well Bud Light is doing, I should invest!" or do they say "A lot of Bud Light's core consumer base is pissed as hell and probably not going to be buying this product in the future, there is limited potential for future growth, I'm out"?
They don't give a shit about what a company is doing today, except to the extent it is predictive of the future. Investors look at this and see lots of activity of users who actively hate the company, that's not future growth
Yes. And if you look at Reddit today, it's still alive and full of buzz.
The third-party app userbase was a small percentage of the site.
Most people are indifferent and so they keep using it.
it is legit nothing but bots and reposts. there's more oc here on Lemmy in my experience
There are magnitudes more OC on Reddit than Lemmy just by nature of their user base size. There are bots and reposts, sure, but Lemmy pales in comparison to the amount of OC on Reddit
You say investors see lots of active users who actively hate the site and don’t see future growth.
I think they see a lot of users who say they hate the site but despite that they still use the site and the numbers continue to grow. To me that sounds like a dependent user base that even through hard times continues to grow.
People hate CEOs but can be so dumb...
Do you think those VC vultures are looking at those numbers in a vacuum? I highly doubt it.
They don't care. You're not even bed bugs to these people. You're just the siren that's heard 20 blocks away downtown at 10 pm.
No biggie. Par of the course.
The black hole? Do your homework, it's the void.
Btw. Why just "fuckspez" the Lemmy mascot would be better.
“Oh no, anyways…”
Says the Reddit execs as they show off their numbers to VCs as they prepare for their IPO
100% agree. I'm one of the April Knights that team up every April Fool's for the events. They are 4000% doing this to boost numbers. Fuck them entirely. I refuse to participate.
That being said, we need to have our own April Fools event. I wonder if anyone would be interested in this? If there is enough of it, I'll see if I can take on a new coding project.
R/place will increase their traffic no matter what. At least the picture can convey the protest message so they know we aren't going to move past it that easily. Plus, keeping r/place open all day is increasing their server costs while providing no ad revenue. I don't go to reddit other than to spread to good word of Lemmy and to downvote admins so I think that has more benefit to us than to them.
At least the picture can convey the protest message so they know we aren't going to move past it that easily.
As if that means anything to them?
You're a minority.
don't go to reddit other than to spread to good word of Lemmy and to downvote admins so I think that has more benefit to us than to them.
Reddit admins ABSOLUTELY RUINED by frequent EXPLETIVES and DOWNVOTES
or write 'join lemmy' so you take away the numbers in the long run
Do your part by not getting baited into reddit my friend. You are providing revenue to them by doing so.
Dude I know, it's like the 100th comment like this: I get it.
But stop being so invested in what you think is true and consider this: there are still a lot of people protesting reddit on reddit because they want to stay there and they don't like the direction it is going.
My grandfather used to say "we didn't beat the fascists by ignoring them: that's how they got the power in the first place". And while I'm a firm believer that boycotting is the best way of dealing with this sort of problems, I believe that sometime it's also efficient to scream "fuck you" to somebody's face.
Like 90% boycotting and 10% "fuck you" seems a good ratio.
[Gets down from the soap box]
This is embarrasing.
Only (lol) difference is the Nazis were talking something finite (land, resources, freedom).
Reddit is ephemeral, if no one went there it wouldn't "hurt" anyone
Just a reminder for anyone that wants to check up on r/place without giving Reddit your money, there are tons and tons of twitch streams that show how r/place currently looks.
If you aren’t actively helping create the “fuck spez” check our r/place without giving Reddit traffic.
Honestly y’all are just bragging about how dumb y’all are at this point.
“I’m gonna protest a website I hate by giving them more traffic! That will show them”
Do y’all pay grifters your money to spite them too?
The opposite of love (attention for Reddit) is not hate. It is indifference.
I'll just enjoy the fun from the comfort of whoever reposts it on Lemmy.
Looks like they won't publish a timelapse video after it's all over like last year.
Someone will
Anything else of note so far? How big is the "Fuck spez" section relative to the whole canvas?
Also how long until admins "fix" it, I wonder...
dont think they will do that, they arent suicidal
They did it and banned people for drawing boobies last time, soo…
They have censored things in the past—you can see when an admin places pixels.
Wait wait wait Reddit is going r/place right now??? Why on earth would they do that
Probably because it’s historically generated a ton of traffic and they’re trying to fluff up their numbers to hide the aftermath of their mistakes.
Bingo. This is ragebait for financial gain.
100% for traffic/numbers to show investors and advertising companies. Don’t give them the satisfaction, it’s better to stay away.
Where were you six years ago
Rome wasn’t built in a day.
Keep up the good work!
Boy am I glad we don't have that nonsense on lemmy. Why people care about that garbage is beyond me.
It was cool the first time.
Now it just feels desperate
The first r/place in 2017 was genuinely special. It was totally unique, and it was a really cool social experiment to see how people could collaborate. By the time the second one came out it was obvious the bots were out in full force. None of my individual contributions lasted long. I have zero interest in doing it again.
This whole situation feels like the wotc strike, Laziness wins and the corporate god doesn't have to deal with consequences
