They expected to show a large influx of visits when they create an event. They will show user counts and to the result to their investors. It’s all calculated and we’re all falling for it.
I'm not falling for it. Just looking at it from lemmy and laughing lol
People that keep making this dumbass "engagement" claim have no goddamn idea what they're talking about. Nobody is falling for jack shit. The "engagement" of people going on to place to troll is miniscule. Like you said, half of us aren't looking at this on Reddit. It's being broadcast everywhere else and the tech outlets that an investor will see are reading about how much the user base fucking hates the product.
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August's numbers are August's problem.
Here's are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they'll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
I mean, as an Ad Tech guy, the problem is that they’re at the stage where they need to increase revenue, not just engagement numbers. Look at Twitter: The dollars can simply flow out of an ad supported social media company and to the big boys fairly easily.
This is the issue with the tech industry as a whole right now. High interest rates mean the DAU jig is up.
Even investors pay attention to the news, and this single picture speaks louder than words.
Surely any decent investment means they research the company. That'd be stupid business decisions. Although, Investors are immoral.
Investors are immoral. And they research the company but they don’t necessarily tour the whole thing. If they research the numbers. Then they see this. Now the whole gate is towards Spez. I bet we will soon see an announcement where he steps down (with a bonus) and the investors can be reassured that it’s all good. Plus they get huge visit numbers.
Earlier on the French flag they had constructed a massive guillotine that was coming down on a Snoo’s head with Spez wrote on its face.
Then you started seeing large blobs being put over it where admins/mods were trying to blot it out.
Notably, the blobs all appear at seemingly the exact same time. Just... plonk, a random patch of noise on the art.
If anyone got a screenshot of that, please post.
I'm actually proud of people for this
...and they all logged in to make it happen...
My baconreader icon opens Lemmy. That's how you actually say fuck spez.
Dumbasses
I agree with you, but it is also important to spread the message of 1. Fuck reddit and its owners and 2. Lemmy exists.
Once Place is done, I am hoping all lemmy users disconnect from reddit once again.
Happy to see everyone working together.
Also, Bluey.
Love the Bluey advert. Disturbed it's beside galactic space dicks or whatever that is lol.
It’s Deep Rock Galactic, which is actually a really solid game. People just keep turning it into “Deep Cock Galactic” lmao
I’ve participated in that thing since the beginning and was kinda sad to miss it this time until now.
Hahahahahahaha. It’s beautiful.
r/place was special enough to me that it was the only reason I stopped at deleting my content, instead of full-on deleting my account.
It just feels so hollow this year. Not sure if its all the anger, the clear repetition for corporate motives, or both.
I love the fact that Bluey and MLP have been worked around and not destroyed yet
Bluey too wholesome to be defaced.
They expected everyone to be so mad at Spez that they ran to the subreddit to show their displeasure, thus making it seem like Reddit engagement is doing just great so it looks real nice for the IPO. You guys really need to just stop paying attention to Reddit at all.
who cares if reddit grows im on lemmy
Looks like "My little pony" is being changed to "my little penis" and it's hilarious!
Now just replace all the fuck Spez with Join Lemmy and its ::chefs kiss::
This.
We need and organized campaign to turn this into a giant advert for Reddit alternatives.
Reddit doesn’t care that people are writing fuck spez, they care that traffic is up.
We need to make this back fire and drive traffic away from Reddit.
I have only one thing to say:
lmao
rofl, even
Aww Bluey 😊
People should really use his actual name, "Steve Huffman". Being called an asshole by his username is just reinforcing his username and thus Reddit. Use his name so that when he goes to his rich-guy places to hang out with fellow rich guys who don't use Reddit, they ask him why everybody is saying he's an asshole.
This warms my heart
Just when I thought there was no more utility to be had from reddit
Canada’s like “what’s going on eh?”
slow clap
This... was not a good idea.
Beautiful.
I’m more surprised they let it stay up.
I'm not sure where they got their information, but The Independent says
Reddit Place is set to continue for the next four days, allowing users to contribute to its evolving creation.
As a former 10+ year Reddit refugee - lolololooolooooool!
https://media.tenor.com/BHEkb1EYsaMAAAAC/aplausos-clapped.gif
^ please tell me if this shows up, if not, [insert dicaprio clapping gif here]
important side note: mr lemmy dev team can you add the ability to comment gifs? thx
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