Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20

I'm personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven't been on since the protests were announced.

Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I'm gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.

This makes me sick honestly. r/place is one of the nicest memories I have of Reddit and now they’re using it as a cheap tactic to bait us to come back. Really a low blow.

Someone's already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)

edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN

They want to give their rebelling and unhappy user base a giant digital dry erase board to graffiti and express themselves? That will go great!

We gonna take it over and continue the message of fuck u/spez?

We need to put a giant “join Lemmy” sign and /or a giant “API” sign to piss them off

Ah, reddit comment bots. Now with...Boomhauer?

For nobody wondering, I'm gonna go with lolno. Moving away from reddit means I'm moving away from reddit, not screaming profanities on their front lawn at 3am like a drunken ex trying to prove how much I don't need them.

Call me boring if you want but this was already overdone and annoying by the second time they did it. Not looking forward to dumb screenshots of hard to understand pixel drama taking over everything again, it will probably be posted all over lemmy too...

let's start our own c/place, with blackjack and hookers!

Time to make as many Lemmy references as possible on that canvas. Hidden, overt, just everywhere

Totally not suspicious timing at all.

I like how they included June 23 in their animation, like they'd been planning to do it for reddit's Very Special 18th birthday and just accidently overshot, instead of "they're foundering and are desperately trying to drive traffic to the site back up so they can tell the advertisers and the investors that traffic and engagement is back up" - without telling them exactly what they did to try to drive traffic back up.

Current view seems to be a great big "API" on the screen, but I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to either skew the accounts (admin accounts can change colors as much as they want!) or do something annoying like arranging for xQc and his little cult to grief the board again (which probably wouldn't take much beyond someone telling him that he was welcome to do so).

Not really a new thing for them, they've been trying to milk r/place since the first one. The last time they let it run too long as well, it needed to be like a 1 or 2 day max thing not a week

Can not wait for the biggest "fuck u/spez" ever 🤣

Holy hell they are so desperate it's just sad.

Lmfao the past few weeks have legit looked like a corpse flailing on the ground, it's nervous system pumping out every desperate attempt at reviving the body.

But make no mistake, the body is dead.

The whole point of r/Place was to happen only so occasionally. I really got hyped for the second one, because I was too late for the first one. It happening every year would kill the hype for me. So thanks, I’ll pass and stay logged out.

Quick, someone figure out a way to write 'Fuck u/spez' without increasing site traffic!

I didn't touch it last time when they made it exclusive to the new site design. Definitely not touching it after everything else.

I'm not gonna use reddit ever again, but I can't wait for the shitshow lmao

Wow, remember when they did something different every April first

Also, this isn't going to keep us distracted - this is an effort to keep the userbase alive - by continually running events and keeping controversy fresh, they can get people's curiosity to get the best of themselves and make the number of active users spike.

My guess is they potentially go public during one of these spikes

This is ridiculous

Hey 🤨 you guys smell that? 😏it reeks of desperation

They cannot possibly think that this is a good idea.

Would be cool if r/place could be used to give some exposure to lemmy. Maybe something like a big "move 2 lemmy" text. But probably difficult to find and coordinate enough people.

I look forward to people using it to encourage Rexit. People will add links to Lemmy servers, etc. It will be glorious.

What was r/place? Not familiar with it.

The only thing they could bring back that would make me consider making an account is TheButton. By the way I was a 42s Blue Hitchhiker.

This is going to go about as well as gasoline to out a fire. Surprised they are not locking this to only users with premium subscriptions.

Wow this couldn't be any more transparent. Laziest way to get easy PR after the stream of terrible decisions they've made. Thankfully doesn't look like anyone's buying it.

Looking forward to watching the cat-and-mouse game of people writing "fuck /u/spez" and the admins deleting it. Gonna be a shitshow.

I'm having fun with the Fediverse. I'm pretty sure Reddit doesn't care if everyone leaves. I still like reading news about them but I've not been back. If I accidentally click on someone's posted reddit link (happens a lot - trying to retrain!) I back out quick before it loads.

I have to say though, I'm going through Reddit withdrawal this week. I've also moved away from Twitter. Even though the Fediverse is great, it's still growing and the apps don't have everything I need. I've been grumpy and unsettled and 100% it's because my beautiful Reddit app and routine has gone away.

I hate how the people keep spamming "SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN" (I know what that means, I am German, also very funny and totally not overused ) below every single comment.

Maybe I'm OOTL on whatever announcement they made on ich_iel but this seems like they're meme-ing on the people that want to put stuff like "API" or "fuck u/spez" on the canvas and I do not see the positive in meme-ing on them since that's pretty much the only thing left to do.

Can we make a Lemmy theme place art?

Love the top comment on this post data “API” that’s funny.

Hahahahahahahaha

But seriously—

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh, the IPO must be really imminent then.

Nice to see that r/place is going about as well as I was expecting it to (surprised the "FUCK SPEZ" stuff has lasted as long as it has). Does anyone want to place any bets on how long the "FUCK SPEZ" messages will last before Reddit's censors admins come and get rid of them? This is going to result in some well deserved bad publicity for the site if any of this ends up being censored, or ends up in the final canvas, so they're damned if they censor any of this stuff and damned if they don't lmao.

What was r/place back then?

I'm just wondering how they're going to censor it once all the API and "fuck u/spez" slogans form

I feel like instead of writing 'fuck spez' on reddit, the best decision is to ditch it completely. I mean, I do still visit reddit due to some niche communities that don't have that big of a user-base on lemmy, but clearly reddit exists for 10+ years. The change can't happen overnight. In any case, I am still astonished by how quickly lemmy got that much traffic. From a small village, it has turned into a city, it's incredible. :)