1 yr. ago • 85%

/r/place: Our beautiful lemmy banner above the 3rd party app protest has been wiped out, please help us rebuild from the right at 38,-25

xQc came and totally wiped us out. We have a lot of work in front of us and we are a bit too small a team to hold this space if someone decides to take it from us. I'm really proud of how well we've been able to advertise Lemmy and fuck things up with our allies in Fuck Spez and Black Company (doing the 3rd party apps protest). Help us to close out /r/place with our banner intact!

We are rebuilding from the g at the end of the url at 38,-25

Chat is at https://app.element.io/#/room/#lemmyplace:data.haus

57 comments

Enough. This is getting ridiculous now. Look, I get why we’re doing this, but isn’t the engagement what Reddit wants?

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- Listen, for the last 2-3 months, I've only visited Reddit to participate in /r/RedditAlternatives. I've moved everything here. I want to make that happen for others too. I'm happy here.
  
  I don't even subscribe to this subreddit or any of the ones about other social media sites. I tend to downvote anything I do see about Reddit or Twitter, because I just don't need to hear about them any more.
  
  I'm driving very little traffic Reddit's way, and the only time I do so is to hasten it's demise. The most people that we ever had on the chat planning this banner was around 10 that I saw.
  
  This is getting tons of press. I'm quite certain we drove more people here than we drove traffic there. It's worth it IMO.
  
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  I'm sure they're hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there's no "fight" to be won and reddit definitely isn't facing any type of demise.
  
  If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.
  
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  You lost me at listen
  
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  I'd argue that coming to other platforms begging people to go to Reddit is more impactful than your own personal browsing even if you hadn't changed your habits at all. It's just ragebait and Reddit knows it. Stop playing into their hand.
  
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- Good to get awareness out there, the more people who know about these federated alternatives the better, even if it means having to use Reddit (where there's still a huge population of potential converts)
  
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  There seems to also be some confused people who want to move on, but who don't know where to go. For those of us already here it's obvious that kbin/Lemmy is the platform of the migration, but from the outside a lot of people are still considering centralized alternatives.
  
  Having a join-lemmy banner in the middle of r/place with no other Reddit alternatives present should more or less settle the debate on where the move is going to, in a way that speaks directly to the relevant audience (those still on Reddit).
  
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- Can't we just make our own place? Like a permanent one that's better than Reddits?
  
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  I think the fleeting nature is actually kind of what makes it great. Run it once a year for a week. Not sure how you'd accomplish something similar with the fediverse though. Someone would try to run it off-site without the community as a whole getting on board and then you end up with like 8 people participating.
  
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- Do you really think we have any chance of driving engagement/traffic up (or down) in any significant way? You are overestimating our numbers and vastly underrating theirs.
  
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  I’m not saying that, I’m saying that we should just leave Reddit alone. r/Place was a PR move to drive up engagement. Doing this is exactly what Reddit wants. Anyone who wants to move already has.
  
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- Yeah that's the point, and it's why this is the first r/place that's not on April Fools.
  
  It's crazy transparent, they're desperately trying to get some green statistics before they go public.
  
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- So why are you participating in a reddit community on lemmy then?
  
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  Just because you want to vent about an ex with friends that doesn't mean you have to send your ex money. Even if you write "you suck" on the bills, you're still doing them a favour.
  
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side note, how in the hell is reddit infested with so many bots yet i cant get an alt that doesnt get instabanned for the life of me? the increasingly angry messages from the admins each time they swat a new one are funny and all, but i wouldnt mind an account to occasionally say something from. tried using VPN and it didnt seem to work. Note: am not a tech guy so probably missing something very obvious

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- didn't notice this, I use a couple of alts and create a new one from time to time (although I do this less and less because I mostly use lemmy instead now)
  
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- While responding to another person with a similar problem, I saw someone suggest that another person's VPN might have been using the banned IP Adress.
  
  My girlfriend also had the same problem right before reddit pulled the recent app shenanigans. All of her appeals were immediately banned, despite the fact that she only really lurked. Out of the two of us, we figured that my account would have been the one to go, because I actually commented and posted things. Nope.
  
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I wonder how many people are gonna take a look at lemmy, because of the banner. Might be worth a poll after it ended.

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Just build a script for it like everyone else who is advertising on it right now. If reddit wants to play dirty so can we.

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- Idk if there's a script but yesterday or somewhen, ChaoticNeutralCzech shared this template
  
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Okay, been wondering this for a while, and can't think of where to post it. So... Gonna ask her.

Could lemmy do it's own version of Place? Like, a new instance specifically for lemmyplace, sole purpose being the big canvas (maybe c/canvas?), And it only stays up until it's done?

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Hmm, let me check the comments I made when they kicked off /r/place again last week. Oh, yes, there it is:

I absolutely wouldn't put it past [reddit] 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).

I should get a job as a prognosticator ....

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- I really doubt they worked with xQc on this.
  
  Not because I put it past them, but rather because he was gonna do this regardless
  
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  I'm OOTL can someone explain why xQc even did this? Was it targeted?
  
  At least I'm in the loop enough to know that he and his chat at least have the attention span of a banana which is why it was so quickly rebuilt.
  
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- You’d think xQc would be all for sowing the chaos of pushing users to a different platform.
  
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Great work mate 🦙

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Hello, thanks for your support. I'm the leader of all this and I would like to say thanks for everybody's contributions.

https://lemm.ee/post/2027694

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- Thank you! It was a pleasure working with you!
  
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Thoughts and prayers any help? Because I'm not going on Reddit ever again.

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Text is back, icon is still missing mostly. Good work!

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No. This is becoming rediculous. Stopped being so obsessed with your ex.

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- The equivalent of being broken up with, then posting daily on Facebook about your ex and contacting all her friends to tell them he's/she's the bad one
  
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I bet you guys stalk your exes.

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- Permanently Deleted
  
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  Then get new friends
  
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  Either way whining about it won't help
  
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Give it some time. Everyone's life priorities will change and something like this won't be at the top of the list.

Source: Used to do the same crap.

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I've never checked out a community or done anything because of a random 50 pixels on r/place. The engagement they get from this is so valuable to them, while I'd be surprised if one person joins because of these random pixels.

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- The argument about engagement being worth a lot is kinda silly. The initial numbers of “look at how good we can do!” immediately followed by “but everyone using it has left” isnt a good thing. Advertisers want stability not “big number for short time.”
  
  Look at it this way: If you were an advertiser, would you go with an advertisement campaign on a site that had an average of 1000 users each and every day, or a site that had 100,000 users for a single day, and 10 for the rest of the year?
  
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  Sure but It depends on how it's presented I feel like too, Reddit can say that r/place had x amount of interactions which is growth over the past x numbers of iterations of r/place. And Reddit now doubt has amazing retention numbers so I don't think marketers are gonna worry about that. Either way if we're on it or not I don't think Reddit even notices, we're less than a drop in the bucket. I think I'm just fatigued from Mastodon and Lemmy being full of, Look what's happening on Twitter and look what's happening on Reddit. It's fatiguing when it's every 3rd post.
  
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- I have, that's how I discovered r/fuckcars, now c/fuckcars. I did so last time r/place was around
  
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Just. Let. It. Die.

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Since we so want to advertise Lemmy on Reddit, perhaps we should buy some ads on Reddit and let it run for a month. What do you think? I will start a Patreon and chip in 0.0001 cent? Anyone with me?

That will show reddit we mean business and want to take reddit down!!!! /s

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