Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time

So anyone want to take a guess at the dimensions of the giant "fuck /u/spez" ?

That doesn't seem like a prudent idea.

"Hmm, a lot of people are incredibly unhappy with decisions we've made in relation to Reddit, we should give them a highly visible visual way to express themselves and see what happens!"

Its a trap. The best way to fight reddit is to not even engage. Imagine r/place was left blank because no one was there.

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Oops! All swastikas!

Sadly, nothing bad will happen to reddit no matter how many people try to protest with pixel art on /r/place. Last year, admins unabashedly removed entire swathes of canvas that they deemed inappropriate, sometimes catching legitimate art in the crossfire. Not to mention the admin who got caught red handed placing multiple pixels off of the timer, with video evidence.

So no, a giant fuck /u/spez will never be allowed to exist long enough to be anywhere close to complete. They'll do the same thing to any API related banner or whatever you might think of.

The best thing you can do is not engage. They are doing this again so soon after the last one because they desperately need clicks and traffic to boost their site metrics for the upcoming IPO.

Besides, it's just going to be a canvas covered 75% in flags maintained by bots anyway because reddit sucks at programming in safeguards to prevent abuse, so your 1 pixel of contribution won't mean squat.

I was looking forward to the next version of r/place in a couple years. Now it’s just utterly pathetic pandering to attempt to bring disaffected users back to the site

The thing I want to know is - are they going to try and block any mention of Fedi or Lemmy on the canvas?

This isn't the worst time, it's the best time.

If you think like a capitalist, for their IPO it's a catcher to show how strong and big the community is. Investors would love this.

Let’s organize to post a message “Use Lemmy.world”

This has been crossposted on so many communities, please, stop beating this particular dead horse. I am sick of hearing about Reddit.

I KNEW IT LOL
I thought that they'd try to bring this back to get media attention and traffic from fans of YouTubers if they try to get involved, to try to divert attention from their shitty management of the site

Still won't go back. Am happy here.

But just imagine, only a handful of people with bots on their hands. This could end up in a fucking shitshow deluxe.

Maybe we should write lemmy somewhere...

I don't want to give Reddit any traffic BUT this might be a good opportunity to let people know of alternatives like Lemmy!

Last time I was happily making the Skyrim logo with r/Skyrim. This time I won't participate. Losing reddit still hurts but I'm happy to be here with y'all.

So… how many divksnare going to get drawn with spez’s name on it?

Edit: chtorr is probably gonna get caught over painting things again. Probably even has minions doing it this time

Is there a way to see what's happening to r/place without actually going to reddit? (like a stream or something.) I don't want to give them the traffic.

It is impressive the lengths that Reddit will reach to ignore their protesting users. They make one tone-deaf decision after another. r/Place should be quite entertaining.

Let's wait for the anti-reddit pixel art. Mods will "cheat" and remove it before it stays too long.

And maybe it will even be removed from the "public" data.

That's a whole lot of "fuck spez". Well done, strangers.

Why are they bringing it back? It was always a April fools thing?

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Admins will watching it and nuking giant spots every few minutes like they did last time, when they didn't consider it advertiser or IPO friendly enough.

Void is gonna do real well this year, I'd imagine.

They know what they're doing....

We need a team to collaborate and make a large ad for Lemmy.

Oh shit! It's not a joke ??? I saw that early today and imagined how stupid it would be to launch another r/place right now. Grabs some popcorn people, it's going to be interesting to watch.

Fixing the Titanic with chewing gum...

Negative engagement is still engagement... is what spez would say.

I’m gonna be cracking out the popcorn for this one.

Wish I still had a reddit account to help write fuck u/spez

That suuuurely won't blow up in spez's stupid face /s

This is not a news item related to technology. It's about Reddit, which is not a technology. Reddit is a web site, not a technology or pioneer in the tech industry. Reddit is a social media web site. This could be related to technology, but Reddit's use of technology is not discussed in the article. It's about an online event that Reddit hosts and how maybe users won't participate in it. Not exactly a tech thing. More about how people like or don't like a thing. Technology news is more about like, you know, technology. Hardware and software and how it works. This is not a news item about technology. It isn't even about how people relate to technology. It's about a web site, which technology has made possible since decades ago.

This is going to be fun

Given the dimensions are huge, the opportunity for a gigantic manipulated photorealistic image is there. How about a photo of Spez sucking an entire bag of dicks.

Oh this is gonna be fun

I just don’t have enough pop corn for this shitshow

Didn't they only do r/Place once a year?

And I'll gladly scroll past from here what someone else is willing to post when they do.