You missed the best part, in the German Flag, they’ve written “u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!”
Translation: u/spez is a son of a whore/bitch (Google says bitch, commenters are saying whore.)
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What’s that mean?
I don’t know any German, so this is a complete guess, but I think it’s spez is a whores son
Good guess.
Hure [ˈhuːrə] = whore Sohn [ˈzøːnə] = son
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Why do u act like everyone knows German?
Usa un traductor, son solo 3 palabras
Why do you assume translations and search engines don’t exist?
Because I do t speak German and I got the gist of it.
Yeah! Assuming everyone understands our language is reserved for us Americans!
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Don’t threaten me with a good time.
By opening up r/place again, they’ve stolen the magic from it.
The first time it happened, it was amazing and novel.
The second time was an incredible surprise each time the board opened up again. I was involved with the r/Beach House community to put up an homage to our favorite band.
But now… It’s become repetitive. It feels like just an attention grab, like a ploy to artificially increase traffic to the site. This time, it looks no different from every other time r/place has taken… place. It’s flags everywhere, there’s so much anger surrounding it, and it’s just not fun.
r/place was special because of its spontaneity. But now it’s soulless, like every other corporate-owned internet phenomenon is.
Fuck Steve Huffman.
It seems emptier this time. Like lots of uncontested space there.
It’ll be filled
By more “fuck spez” hopefully
I might could live with repetitive if it wasn’t for the anger. I’ve got a 2’x2’ print of 2022’s canvas sitting next to my desk, and I still get lost in it every now and then. Just another trip exploring a new canvas could be fun.
But then I open the page and 15% of it is just “fuck spez” and everyone is angry. Rightfully so, but… I just don’t feel it anymore.
It’s now a symbol of how deteriorated Reddit has become. I mean, yeah, you’ve summarized it perfectly. r/place is now the symbolism of everything wrong with Reddit. It’s repetitious, as much as all of the karma farming posts on Reddit have been for years. All the other places had contained a culture snapshot of everything that Reddit brought together.
All that this version of Place has brought, is all of the anguish towards one person and their poor decision making.
Ehh, flags dominated since the very first r/place.
But yes it’s pretty obvious each new edition is ever more astroturfed. The second one had lots of obvious organised bots designing perfect shapes and logos, and moderators’ meddling was noticed as well.
It’s the ol’ Blizzard “Look, we’re introducing a new character who might be gay! There’s no lore that references it anywhere, we’re just tellin’ you they’re gay or lesbian, aren’t we great!” kind of maneuver. Ooh, look at the special thing we’re doing, aren’t we playful and fun?
For the record, I’m all for inclusiveness, I just use Blizzard as an example since they used to be just so transparent about that before the really dark times.
Yeah, I agree this is most certainly to increase traffic. On the one hand, I like that there are many places on the board where the anti-admin sentiment is very obvious, but it does play into their hands in terms of traffic numbers.
This is still traffic on the site.
Do you expect to see the site die in a week?
How far back do you think user engagement on r/place will stall reddit failing?
Do you think not using the canvas would cause more harm than their favorite event being covered in language shitting on the CEO and making the pretty canvas not marketable?
Personally, I strongly disagree if you do think so. Even if every Lemmy user drove 0 traffic to reddit, it would change very little of their day to day engagement.
It’s important in the long term to move away from reddit and reduce engagement of the site, but the cost benefit ratio of fucking up the marketability of r/place strongly outweighs the effect users would have engaging the site.
So, at the end, it worked?.. shame
Reddit does not need love, people enjoying it or whatever, they need traffic. Advertisers dont care if you are there just to express how awfull reddit is, they need views. I would have love to see this shit staying blank.
I think even if users actually abstained, bots would get involved to make place look active. maybe. I don’t know how far reddits willing to go to make it seem like they’re a good platform
How many of them don’t know about Lemmy yet and would switch in a second if they found out?
I don’t know if the comparison applies here cause whats happening in reddit is a little bit more aggressive, but i have been in another more local based dying internet community (Taringa was pretty popular in latinamerica, 15 years ago or so)… we all knew the moment in which the site died. We expressed ourselves, made jokes about the owners, tried to fight back… nothing changed and people continued to use the site, mostly because we didnt have a replacement for it. At the end it took aprox. 10 years to settle down to the dead site that it is now. Its like a candle, slowly devouring itself to the end. I guess the same will happen with reddit.
I think a lot of reddit users havent even thought about looking for a replacement, they dont know about lemmy and they wouldnt switch either. I may be wrong.
I was on Digg before switching to Reddit 14 years ago and once people were told Reddit existed there was a landslide of people switching because Digg admins were being such jackasses.
The Among Us characters are also back, but they are all FUCK SPEZ. 😆
Ah good to see Belgium represented 😅
every time they do r/place it feels a little less special
I think it felt fine in 2022, the five year gap was long enough. But this year… it just feels hollow to me. Can’t tell if that’s from repetition or just me being burnt out on Reddit, or both.
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Have you seen America lately? Them removed drive around in their truck flying their flag with a vinyl decal of their flag on their back windshield, wearing a flag hat, shirt, and shorts, with sunglasses with their flag, blasting their anthem, with their lawn chairs in the back.
EDIT: omg… lemmy can edit my comment and censor stuff when I click post? That’s concerning.
Idk 17 - 22 was a big enough gap to restore the novelty. 22 - 23 not so much…
I can imagine they attempted to save face after all the 3rd party app mess, of course it’s an ill-advised decision and backfired on them as it should.
Every time you do anything more and more often it feels less special. That’s how things work.
this is like following your ex on instagram. time to let them go
True, but also, this is a community for talking about reddit
Gotta vent about our ex at some point.
I need the shadenfreud of seeing what shitty life choices shes making.
Starting a J for “Join Lemmy” at (22,-202)
Apparently there’s also a “Lemmy” going on at (-190,-195)
Place has always been a bit shit. The first time was interesting and novel because all the factions emerged with different ideologies that actually created personas and identities for themselves, but ever since then it’s just been 50/50 nationalism or consumer products. There’s so many more interesting things that could be painted and yet half of it will be flags of bourgeoise states.
should’ve written join lemmy
I think all the Lemmy folks don’t want to give Reddit the traffic. At least that’s my theory.
That’s been the overwhelming response each time I’ve seen it brought up. I want to help put little Lemmy symbols or something, but I haven’t seen one forming when I’ve had a chance to check
I see that, but that’s not the way.
Guerrilla marketing is still needed and if you use the proper tools (I guess everybody has browser extentions here!), your interactions won’t give a coin to reddit.
Fair enough. Sorry to contribute to a broken record. 😕
I don’t understand why r/place is back, 2017 and 22 were very popular. I can only imagine they trying to drive traffic after the exodus. Anybody have insight?
Hell, I never understood the appeal to begin with.
Trying to put a bandaid on a gash, maybe. Also you can only use place on new Reddit or the official app. And you have to verify your email. So they could try to show off to investors that they have this many verified users, or this much increase in users even after the fiasco.
Didn‘t know they brought it back. They probably need to fix their engagement numbers for the IPO…
This is 100% why
“We brought all the users back, buy us!”
“But they’re all saying they hate you. Like, really REALLY hate you.”
“Trust me, it’s a great deal!”
Just stop giving it attention. This is driving traffic and ultimately increases the number of interaction, which is good for reddit. I see people post screenshots of their phones, again driving numbers for the app that they just propped up by killing 3rd party apps.
I’m somewhat okay with someone having posted a screenshot, but 100% agree that we don’t need to send traffic to Reddit.
That doesn’t seem particularly realistic at this point… ~Cherri
