Reddit is still a mess with r/place begging users to 'never forget what was stolen from us'

Sadly, it’s true. r/place will boost their internet traffic’s count to the moon. the best way I think is ignore reddit and r/place but it won’t happen ever.

More like r/bots.

Like, ok, there were bots in the previous r/place events, but this one is fucking stuffed with bots. Every piece of art on that page has been entirely botted, except maybe for the sad Turkish flag that keeps trying to get the star right.

Didn't you hear? Karma is now on blockchain lmao.

I'm so tired of seeing this take. And this is from someone who hasn't opened a reddit link since July 1st.

Yeah, I agree that we shouldn't give them traffic. But do you think that the people like us are the ones driving that sentiment of "never forget what they stole"? Believe it or not, there exists a base of users who still browse reddit and want to see change. Those are users driving their engagement regardless of what they do. So why not spend that time protesting or sending a message?

Articles like these lower future Reddit’s valuations. It lost like 60% of its original price, and I’d guess it wasn’t primarily because users protested, but rather thanks to many reputable tech news outlets covering the shit storm.

Would a temporary uptick in users be worth it in the long run? I kinda doubt it.

Their user engagement doesn't drive their valuation as much as their ability to sway public opinion. Reddit is a media company. They are a broadcast machine.

Tencent didn't invest in reddit because it's a good place to advertise their games.

If reddit users hate reddit, then reddit can't control reddit users as effectively.

Placing pixels is hardly giving reddit anything of value. Logging in to an account. Contributing your time, content (posts/comments), and moderating on the other hand is "helping" them build their system.

Also I am pretty sure bots are ripping r/place up right now, so it's even more useless. Right now this event is a massive drain on their resources (server/cloud costs). Even as we speak, the instability of reddit is increasing across the site (seeing multiple page errors across the site), and thus decreased actual traffic, and thus decreased advertising revenue.

Would hate to be an SRE for reddit at this point. Servers probably on fire lol

Never ceases to amaze me how people can't seem to understand that disliking one or two aspects of something doesn't mean hating the whole thing. You can hate the API changes and what they imply without hating the rest of the site. You can want something better for a community you've been a part of for, for some of them (myself included), over a decade.

There is a point where you just have to let go... but you don't have to do it the nanosecond you see something you dislike. If everyone did that we would all live in complete isolation from each other.

I hate some food, should I stop eating now? Pretty sure you do, too. Do you still eat? (also, I'm asian so don't tell me you don't hate any food or I'll put you up to it lol)

This is an overly simplistic take (and a blatantly reddit way of thinking - black and white, anyone?). Now I don't use reddit anymore but went back for r/place. Why? Because I felt like spreading the word about alternatives (not just lemmy/kbin) is much better than just letting do their thing. I've already explained in a recent post how that won't affect traffic much, so I won't explain anymore. After that, I'm deleting everything again. I hate spez and what he is doing to reddit, but do I hate the small niche reddit communities I've made connections with over the years?