If you sort by New on /r/place people are asking who is Spez.
This is appalling
Sounds like that Spez person is a very popular porn star.
Close. He peddled borderline CP when he was a mere mod.
Would love to see some lemmy advertising there.
Classic tactic. Let em rant in a special “freedom zone” and do nothing else. I know, obvious, but still maddening. I left reddit behind forever.
Yeah there is no way they didn’t intend this when they opened it back up. It’s protest theatre, give them a punching bag so they don’t stir up real shit.
well this is going about as well as I thought. “u/spez ist ein Hurensohn” made me laugh
Das ist sehr gut!
Kreiswichs showing up in a big spot.
Cringe flagspam ruins this shit every time.
B-but my defining character trait is the country that I was born in. Yes, I am the most boring person alive, why do you ask?
The giant French flag especially is ridiculous (and I’m saying this as a French person). Also, I was expecting more fuck u/spez, but I guess the normies don’t care
Edit: wow I sound salty (I am)
They’re doing r/place again? Didn’t they just have one last year or something? I thought it was supposed to be once every five years event, much like somebody telling spez he is loved.
It looks to me that they’re basically doing it as a desperate last resort.
“even though mods hate us, everyone else loves reddit. See these recent spikes in user engagement”
It can only be accessed through their mobile app, or on the web with the new interface (old.reddit.com won’t work).
They don’t care what people are putting on the board, it’s still an increase in people engaging with the new interface and the official app.
Just like they don’t care about r/pics turning into John Oliver only. It pumps up the numbers, so they can show advertisers and investors a rosy outlook.
Bread and circuses
I’d rather see more “fuck Reddit” on there than spez. Spez isn’t the only one to blame for their issues, he’s just been at the forefront. He’ll get his golden parachute and bounce if all this anger is directly specifically towards him. My 3 pennies
Just like Pao before him. He’s the new scapegoat to bring in unwanted changes.
I don’t think so, largely because his ego wouldn’t allow it.
What did they expect? Lmao
Inb4 every black pixel gets a warning that they’ll be replaced by a different user. Repeat black pixel posters get perma banned without warning.
They can’t have seriously thought this would work in their favor lmao
People just want to consume mindless entertainment. I’m extremely jaded over the whole thing and I’ll be very glad to be proven wrong, but I betcha regular users will participate as usual and drown out any form of protest.
Preaching to the choir there. But with that being said, a lot of the actual content creators on reddit have jumped ship. It’s still going but it’s not as busy as it used to be, and upvote/comment numbers are down across almost every sub whenever I look at it. There is clearly a market for that form of content, seeing how it has frequently been plagiarized by Youtubers, instagrammers, and now tiktokers for the past decade or so. If that content truly falls off then reddit will be in serious trouble.
After weeks of not giving their users a platform to speak about the changes they decide to give their users a giant platform, some real 4D chess being played here
Love how foxhole has gone for exactly the same art as last time
Reddit’s admins should be declared legally blind because there’s no other explanation for how they could couldn’t have seen this coming.
I normally don’t sympatize with Germans. But today I smile upon them.
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