‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.
causing users to suggest that Reddit admins are interfering with their art (there is no evidence so far that would prove this)
If you watch the time lapse, you’ll see that the guillotine was wiped away in an instant, which would either require mass coordination or admin privileges. There’s also the fact that it was removed in chunks, not pixel-by-pixel. Also, it was proven last year that one of the mods didn’t have a cooldown.
Reddit has been thrown into chaos because the company began charging for access to its API
No, it’s because they began charging an amount that isn’t affordable to third-party app developers and with very little notice. They also lied about being willing to work with developers and they made false allegations against Apollo’s developer.
Ya all weird as heck. People who decided to not leave reddit because that’s still their main content provided try to vent their anger in any possible way. And while there’s no thing like bad PR, according to the saying, the truth is that media coverage is underlining bad management from reddit side and how uncooperative it’s users became (they literally fight administration at this point ). So while reddit may have gained numbers in interaction, I don’t believe potential investors can simply omit all these news and quite evident burning of company.
I’d say if they ain’t gonna leave, doing this is the second best thing. Keep it up, redditors, keep it up.
The point of opening it this early again was to garner traffic. Don’t go there at all. It would have been best if only mods and corpo shills were placing pixels.
This 100%. Engagement to show your protest is still engagement. Give Reddit your absence.
Best protest would be if people didn’t obsess over clicking pixels in r/place, giving the site traffic. I can’t stand these people.
somebody should really build a Fediverse version of r/place so anybody from any ActivityPub-powered site can join in and place a pixel every 5 minutes
It’s not federated but there is pixelcanvas.io, which is like r/place but infinite and not controlled by Reddit
Also an app called Everyone Draw
You might have something here. Development would be easy but maintenance and moderation is another beast.
which is why it should be limited as a yearly event similar to r/place right now.
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Oh come on, Germany is a beautiful, civilized country.
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In order to make something good you must have a clear vision of how it truly is. That means recognising it’s negatives but also allowing space to recognise it’s positives to. Germany is not entirely good or bad. Even if you feel it is largely or overall bad, if you want it to be good you must celebrate and support where it is good to nurture those positives.
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There’s something weird about “protesting” a site by continuing to use their site. Hopefully it’s just bot traffic flooding /r/place rather than real people coordinating in real time.
Exactly. The real protest would have been to totally ignore r/place. Could you imagine a blank canvas. That would have been epic.
Problem is, that reddit themselves would just start using bots to create simulated pixel placements so it would look like people are interacting such that people feel they must start playing as well. Much like agar.io or similar .io games that are actually not real multiplayer games untill they gain critical mass, bit still probably contains bots.
And then they went back to using reddit. Hell of a protest. /s
This r/place is a great visualization of the damage done to Reddit. Previous r/places have been much more interesting and vibrant. The current canvas has large portions covered with boring flags and overall there’s just less going on, much less depth and variety. A great confirmation that Reddit has indeed changed, and a great visualization of how it has changed.
The fact that they’re bringing this back in a month other than April is pathetic. I don’t know what species is worse. You don’t see them trying to fuck each other over for a goddamn percentage.
And yet this is probably good for reddit. They live on amount of engagement and you dummies just fell for it.
If you run an ad blocker and no ads turn up when you browse , they they won’t get ad money from you. Negating the value of engagement.
You went there, generated content for them which is generating publicity. Other people, without ad blockers, are going there to see it …
THAT WILL TEACH HIM!
Surely.
I think insulting is the wrong way. It’s just a level that I am disappointed to see people lower themselves to.
Same here.
From where I sit, these people should simply abandon Reddit, rather than fuel its popularity.
While I also like to watch a slowmo trainwreck from a distance, we should be focusing on building our new home. The foundations are already here, but everything else is still absent.
Aye.
Developing new approach and mindset to data sharing and online culture would be great. Unfortunately, plenty of people insist on making this place Reddit, with all its wrong aspects… 😑
