Totally not suspicious timing at all.
Also if you’re willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They’re not fooling anyone.
I’m personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven’t been on since the protests were announced.
Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I’m gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.
If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information
I think you’re right; Askhistorians is a great example of the power and necessity of moderation. Not every community needs to be so heavily moderated, but askhistorians knew what they were going for and we’re willing to work to maintain it.
Tangentially related, I had a friend who had studied History at Oxbridge who was excited to discover ask historians existed, but bewildered (and slightly offended, ha) when one of his answers was rejected. The problem was that he was used to speaking to other academics, and that uses a different style of speaking and citing sources; on the internet, and ask historians more specifically, it’s much harder to lean on one’s credentials than in real life, and I think that’s a good thing. (My friend get over himself and resubmitted the answer)
In context, it’s straightforward and logical, but it does tickle me to remove that context and consider it as “ask historians has higher standards than Oxbridge”
Someone’s already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)
edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN
I wouldn’t put it past the admins to actively try to remove protests on r/place
We gonna take it over and continue the message of fuck u/spez?
We’ll certainly try. If nothing else make them regret using it as a distraction
Flood it with bots, each managing one pixel to collectively spell out “fuck u/spez”
We need to put a giant “join Lemmy” sign and /or a giant “API” sign to piss them off
I’m definitely going to be helping out with a join lemmy banner somewhere
This is exactly what they want. You’ll give them clicks and anything they don’t like will be removed.
There will 100% be mod overreach, but I’m guessing/hoping it will be more focused on removing people making a big API and fuck u/spez. Sure, those few of us working on maintaining it will add some clicks but it’s a drop in the ocean to them. Its a public place (pun unintended) seen by a great many people. The benefit to us will be greater than to reddit.
That would involve interacting with Reddit. No thank you.
This will give Lemmy a huge boost just like last year with r/F***Cars
I’m with ya there. As much as I’m done with Reddit… the thought of spitting in Reddit’s face after what they’ve done to spite everyone else in the quest for money, is tantalizing.
I just made a community for it!
Time to make as many Lemmy references as possible on that canvas. Hidden, overt, just everywhere
Like the Among Us characters…Lemmy across the board! Some brave soul should grab screenshots, for those of us who won’t go there out of spite.
I’m sure we will have another round of recap videos on YouTube that will be made up of screenshots
Holy hell they are so desperate it’s just sad.
I’m not gonna use reddit ever again, but I can’t wait for the shitshow lmao
Hey 🤨 you guys smell that? 😏it reeks of desperation
They cannot possibly think that this is a good idea.
What was r/place? Not familiar with it.
Can we make a Lemmy theme place art?
Yes please. Front and center
This is going to go about as well as gasoline to out a fire. Surprised they are not locking this to only users with premium subscriptions.
I look forward to people using it to encourage Rexit. People will add links to Lemmy servers, etc. It will be glorious.
Would be cool if r/place could be used to give some exposure to lemmy. Maybe something like a big “move 2 lemmy” text. But probably difficult to find and coordinate enough people.
It’s worth trying, at least a small one if someone wants to make a discord/matrix server to coordinate. I’m already working on the pixels
The only thing they could bring back that would make me consider making an account is TheButton. By the way I was a 42s Blue Hitchhiker.
