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Lol
I was against giving them the engagement but this is goooood
The engagement is fleeting but the spoiling of the narrative is forever.
Never forget he accused the Apollo dev of blackmail and doubled-down on the claim even after evidence disproved it.
Pretty sure that’s a crime in most places.
Crimes only count if poor people do them
They screwed over so many people. Losing the ability to search your own comment history with Camas / Push Shift screwed me out of archiving some of my older write-ups and valuable conversations.
Admins really took a nose-dive in the last year especially. They royally screwed my account over, blatantly wrongly banning my main account then using that false-ban as justification to permanently-ban me months later.
All the while they uphold objectively-racist comments despite several reports. Fucking weird.
I got temp banned for “report abuse” when I’ve only ever reported anything that clearly broke the sitewide rules. Just assumed it was some kinda mistake. When it happened a 2nd time I decided not to bother anymore. Now I consider my account read-only and if I want to post content I use Lemmy.
You can request your entire data footprint and they have to comply. I got mine a few weeks ago just to inconvenience them.
Even when permanently-suspended, I wonder?
Yes. They have to comply with the EU regulations.
The worst thing IMO was making it impossible for blind people to moderate subreddits (like r/blind) and completely ignoring their pleas to make it possible without third-party apps.
I don’t think it’s a crime, but it probably is a tort.
Yeah, now reddit can’t really promote the final version of this one
I love this, lol
What’s the difference?
That’s incredibly awesome. What a fantastic way to end it!
How much coordination did this take? You’re only able to do a certain about of pixels right? Or did it freefall at the last minute?
… And just like that, Reddit is down site-wide. Awfully convenient.
Just a small database patch, don’t mind spez doing some deleteItem calls.
I have a problem with Reddit
Hugged to death by robots ?
It also successfully distracted the userbase and isolated their protests from the rest of the site.
People make fun of Place but I think they knew exactly what they were doing.
Certainly drove their use statistics up a lot, which helps more than the incendiary messaging hurts them (IMO).
Eh, I think this can work like sponsored messages on YouTube videos: probably not immediately a lot of clicks on the product but over time more and more people recognize it and know what it is. And I like to think that over time Spez will be recognized as the soulless fucker who is hated by the very community he is trying to sell. Reddit lost a lot of charm in the last couple of months, even more than was already lost before and his name is tied to the whole thing. I hope!
Name recognition is a big thing. From now on, anything Spez announces will be dampened slightly simply by the fact that he announced it. Of course, Spez could just run the company without much fuss and stay out of the spotlight but he’s too egotistical for that.
Or the opposite. It is a form of bait that increases user engagement and drives up numbers for that IPO.
And critically, more ad hits.
Very good point!
They also screwed themselves over by playing the r/place trump card so soon after the last iteration in 2022. Rather than doing it to create a cool event to experience once every few years, they did it to drive engagement on Reddit. That’s made people lose interest and even if it’s another 5 years before the next one, many of them won’t come back. It’s a self-acknowledgement that the peak reddit era is finished and wouldn’t have happened without the prior backlash against their enshittification. It’s the type of thing that sets up the conditions for a death spiral, because they’ve resorted to tricks to get people to use the site and eventually they’ll run out of tricks.
Nice and all, but pretty pointless if you stay there after.
The final hour: https://piped.video/watch?v=UnrnLd4tzGM
I like how it started with a smaller Fuck Spez until some group clearly went “nah, we need to go bigger”
That is just beautiful to watch.
A cat beat everyone to it.
Dang those thangs are thanging.
Well the join lemmy ad made it until the end at least
And spez will always be a hurensohn no matter what.
Based! Hopefully everyone can abandon Reddit soon
Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.
Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-Dylan Thomas
All the images are so clean. Like if they were all created by well coordinated robots.
r/place brings all the bots to the yard.
I don’t think I saw one account that had more than a few karma putting points up on the super clean images. It really was just a bot fest.
I wonder what the federated version of r/place would look like. It should not be too hard to create a collaborative pixel board and accept input from anywhere in the fediverse. But we would need to come up with some cool fedi spin. A chessboard, maybe, where every server has a square?
In the future, when the fediverse is more mature, it would be cool to create something.
The way the Lemmy version of r/place would look like would depend on which other servers your server is federated with. It’s a very postmodern approach where there is no single view of the thing for everyone
Worked for me, quit Reddit and in the lemmyverse now. They did this to themselves.
When does place end?
Now. You can only place white pixels currently
Racist reddit.
Every time anything negative towards reddit has gone up on place, mass unattributed changes have happened. I expect the same will happen here.
