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[–] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] TeddE 29 points 1 year ago (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] dhork 29 points 1 year ago

It would be more subversive to stick a huge Apollo logo front and center.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] TheLowestStone 7 points 1 year ago

Spez clearly believes all press is good press and the articles will drive some traffic to reddit so he's not even wrong.

[–] crowsby 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Ensign_Crab 34 points 1 year ago

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

Well, yes. It's on reddit.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Heads up that your spoilers are broken (at least on wefwef).

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thanks! I’ll put in a bug report if there’s not one already.

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[–] aloeha 34 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Welp, Reddit sure got its user engagement up

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

lol you can just use old.reddit.com/r/place

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Roughly for an hour, based on the post announcing it.

[–] thessnake03 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On mobile, they're forcing you to use their app, can't do it in a phone browser. So dumb. Clearly grabbing for dowmloads

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Blastoid5000 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] dhork 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] rtxn 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Pandantic 6 points 1 year ago

Last time, it was a rickroll.

[–] rustyfish 7 points 1 year ago

Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit meine Kerle.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Pandantic 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Pandantic 2 points 1 year ago

Fair, you do you.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Updated canvas

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