• @[email protected]
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      Completely logical as much of it is removed on Reddit and many of us are curious about our old stomping grounds. It’s the people complaining about it that are getting tiring.

      • Album
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        Yeah I’m satisfied by reading about it though Lemmy so I don’t actually have to go there

        • @[email protected]
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          Legit. It’s been great, keeping up while not having to actually do anything that might support reddit.

      • @[email protected]
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        Eh, the only problem I have is that it spills into so many communities and that makes it hard to curate your feed. Personally, I do want to see some Reddit stuff. I’m both curious and just plain amused by the drama. But I don’t want my feed dominated by it and try to limit my subscriptions of Reddit related communities.

        Plus I don’t view this as a meme.

    • @[email protected]
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      I think this should be the last of it until Reddit’s IPO, the administration team is just going to sit back and pretend nothing happened in the mean time.

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        It depends on how much Reddit wants to follow in Elon Musk’s steps in destroying their service.

  • @[email protected]
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    Apes together still giving Reddit traffic.

    It’s like writing anti-walmart propaganda on a thousand one dollar bills and then spending them all at Walmart.

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        Sorry if I’m misinterpreting your comment, but that’s usually in reference to people who expect you to make unilateral sacrifices as protest. Foregoing r/place isn’t a sacrifice like foregoing a smartphone entirely is; the whole point either way (deface/ignore) is just to send a message.

      • TimeSquirrel
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        I’m sorry, I missed the part where Reddit is a integral and necessary part of modern life.

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          Reddit isn’t but the internet is. The internet has been getting shittier the past year and people feel it. How many times do you append reddit at the end of your google searches? How many times does google send you reddit search results?

          Reddit is a remnant of the internet before it got centralized and capitalism fucked it up. Yes, we are federated but a majority won’t be switching for a long time. I think there is validity in defacing /r/place as it brings awareness and documents the shitty things the admins are doing. That is very powerful and easy to point and show others what is happening.

          • TimeSquirrel
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            That’s what that meme you mentioned is usually referencing…when somebody criticizes a thing they depend on.

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              yeah but in this context it isn’t. I’m just saying, if people want to protest the site’s changes, it’s better for them to protest within the site itself rather going somewhere else and disturbing people there.

    • @[email protected]
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      meh. I’m not interested in participating, but for a short uptick in user activity, a bunch of tech journals will be writing about this and they’ll come up is searches about /r/place for years to come. It will be a net lose for spez.

      • @[email protected]
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        Looks like a shitload of people accessing it several times a day, some watching it like hawks, and an entire genre of Reddit refugees who’ve taken to advertising it on a daily basis.

        • genoxidedev1
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          :NOWAY: Not the 400 people advertising Lemmy vs the at least 30 million Bots and the few million Reddit users.

          Look at this and tell me we are a statistic.

          • @[email protected]
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            This. It’s honestly hilarious people keep parroting that “that’s still engagement” BS like we’re a force to be reckoned with compared to reddit.

            It’s like getting $10 from Musk and thinking its6gonna hurt him in a significant way. Lmao.

        • @[email protected]
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          I mean, poking in and scrolling your old favorite sub for 10 minutes 3 times a day is still substantially less traffic then constantly bumming around on r/all all day

          Besides, with the sheer number of reddit users not even including the tens of thousands of bots, the site traffic generated by Lemmy users is probably so small it makes no difference at all

    • @[email protected]
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      411 months ago

      Personally only use Reddit read-only, with ad blocker and anti-tracking. Though I find that I don’t like read-only very much, so I’m spending less and less time on Reddit.

    • @[email protected]
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      yeah but lowkey how funny would it be if that was the final r/place image they’ve gotta solidify in history

      • @[email protected]
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        111 months ago

        Have they actually been censoring it? I keep hearing that the fuck Spez stuff is being deleted but Idk if they’re doing it or it’s just getting overwritten lol

        • @[email protected]
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          111 months ago

          honestly think it’s just the people writing fk spez arent staying on long enough to upkeep it, or just dont care about reddit enough. THOUGH im pretty sure mods were caught using their unlimited pixels last r/place

    • @[email protected]
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      311 months ago

      Wont everyone leave after r/place ends? Does it matter if the extra traffic is only temporary?

      • @[email protected]
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        Will they? I think theyre gonna find a new way to complain about reddit while still using reddit

  • genoxidedev1
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    Thank you to everyone that contributed to this beautiful piece of art🫡

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          I need some fuckin’ eye bleach. But this is beautiful… in a sense.

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              That’s true, and certainly worth noting.

              But I think it’s also worth noting that he remained a moderator for literal years and only killed the sub after serious media backlash. If no one made a big stink he wouldnt have changed anything

              Also he gave the head moderator his own custom trophy as well as the best sub of 2008 award. So I’ll let you draw your own conclusions

              • Liar™️
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                Exactly. He’s a fuckin site admin, you’re telling me he couldn’t just take himself off as moderator right away? Dude probably loves touching kids and everyones is all “oh but anyone could add him”. Sick of that line lmao

        • @[email protected]
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          411 months ago

          Woha wait. I missed these allegations, and I’m too dumb to tell if this is just a joke or a joke based on real allegations

          • @[email protected]
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            311 months ago

            It’s sort of true from my understanding. He was added as moderator back when you could add anyone without them accepting it

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              111 months ago

              I knew the jailbait thing, not the cat allegations. Is spez just a furry or are we talking bestiality here?

              • @[email protected]
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                211 months ago

                Oh I deleted my comment right after posting because I thought you were replying to someone else. It’s weird though because it shows itself as deleted for me but it also shows the comment got votes on it.

                AFAIK though the cat thing is just a meme about Garfield lol

                • @[email protected]
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                  111 months ago

                  Yeah I sometimes also confuse who is answering who in Jerboa… And Lemmy won’t remove your comment from other instances that already synced with yours. It takes longer I hear.

                  No worries!

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        That’s how the second one ended, not the first one. The first one actually had a final image.

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      That’s how it ends. Only white pixels can be placed now, and eventually they’ll turn the rest white as well.

    • @[email protected]
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      Erasing the art that had nothing to do with the protest. Now they’re just turning the bystanders against them as well.

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    More like “botnets strong”. That’s what really soured me on the second /r/place, it was completely taken over by crypto fanatics and meme stock morons running bots.

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    How does r/space (or whatever) actually work, anyway? Do you only get to edit X amount of pixels per day or something? I imagine they’d have to limit it in some way, or it would change too much too quickly.

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      You get to place one pixel every so-and-so minutes only. To build anything of size people need to collaborate.

      • @[email protected]
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        But in reality it’s just a bunch of neckbeards with 100 reddit accounts each and a script to paint a bitmap

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          Yeahhh…

          When a smaller community comes together to make something uncomplicated and sincere it’s really really cool.

          But everything bigger than 50x50 is all but guaranteed to be bots. Place stopped being fun halfway through last year honestly

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          Yeahhh…

          When a smaller community comes together to make something uncomplicated and sincere it’s really really cool.

          But everything bigger than 50x50 is all but guaranteed to be bots. Place stopped being fun halfway through last year honestly

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          Yeahhh…

          When a smaller community comes together to make something uncomplicated and sincere it’s really really cool.

          But basically everything bigger than 50x50 is all but guaranteed to be bots

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          Yeahhh…

          When a smaller community comes together to make something uncomplicated and sincere it’s really really cool.

          But everything bigger than 50x50 is all but guaranteed to be bots. Place stopped being fun halfway through last year honestly

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      previously it was one pixel every five minutes, I don’t know about now though, as I deleted my account