Doesn't matter, it drives user engagement and website traffic. Easy way to show to advertisers that Reddit is very much alive. They don't care what is drawn, as long as it's nothing illegal or bad for advertisers. People want to spend 24h to write "fuck u/spez"? Sure, whatever.
"No such thing as bad publicity" comes to mind.
At the end of the day, ragebait is still ragebait, and brings in clicks (as well as ad revenue)...
i was there, placed a cube, happy with my adblocker and left for my daily 10 minute dose of modcoord where i look at the first one or two post and answer questions about lemmy
Yeah, this was well played from reddit, they knew that r/place was one of the most popular things reddit ever did, so luring people back with it is excellent plan. They don't care shit about the fuck spez texts, they can now say that they broke engagement records, even without third party api's.
Yeah, so true as long as there's engagement ,that's all that matters to them.
Right? It reminds me of those popular twitter right wingers that get exposure from negative publicity. People feel so smug and proud that they "dunked" on this loser who would otherwise be ignored and forgotten and instead they amplify and magnify the message.
They are aiming for this as a distraction
They've already used one CEO as a fall guy (er... fall gal). Not that I'm a fan, but do we really think spez is the one person in charge of all the stuff going down?
Users have even gone full French revolution but admins are quite obviously blanking it out every few minutes with a db overwrite.
The text in the german flag area translates to
u/spez is a son of a removed
You can swear on the internet. Violence? Gore? No problem!
A bad word? Son of a removed, we're all going to die.
Edit: Wtf, there is a swear filter? Fuck.
What pearl clutching son of a bitch at lemmy.ml decided its users were too fragile to hear the word "bitch"? And here's the real question, can you read ot or does it censor mine? Because if you can read it then what's the point of censoring your own users?
Edit: yeah Kbin lets you say it.
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment. The word gets immediately replaced when you post. I'd like to know what words are forbidden, is there a list somewhere?
Just to test how the filter behaves: Bi.tch.
I can read every swear in this thread except the root post.
Nobody can read it, check the source of your comment.
Correction: No one browsing through your specific server can read it. The rest of us see it just fine.
From where I'm sitting, it seems like the filter is applied (a) when a lemmy.ml user makes a post (it strips it from the source and says removed for everyone) and (b) when lemmy.ml federates another instance's comment over (source instance and any other non-censored federated instance has the word intact, ONLY you guys don't see it).
Just move on to a better instance that isn't run by tankies. Problem solved.
If the swear is posted on kbin, and viewed on kbin, it is not censored. Which is why I can view 'bitch' when posted by kbin folks. And I assume they can read mine.
Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
Funny, fuck isn't censored but bitch is
Kyle's mom's a bitch...
Time to switch to a different instance you fucking fuck face!
looks like tankies love censorship, who would have guessed
Hmm. Testing to see: removed.
That's crazy, it even blocks my ex wife's name.
Ladies and/or gentlemen, this is a historic moment: the second coming of hunter2.
What's "*******"?
It's blocks your wife's name, too? Sometimes else try.
For anyone who wants to swear in german, just say
who rain zone
But fast
I'd say ran is a bit closer than rain, but either way, that's still very English German.
Higher traffic stats means higher user engagement. It helps with higher valuation for the IPO.
If you want to hurt them, remove your content, do a GDPR request, and disengage. Focus on the Fediverse instead.
The timing, the bots, the board, everything about this edition just feels weird... Definitely doesn't spark the same joy as earlier editions. Could've expected this ofcourse, just sad that a ~~good~~ decent thing is burning to ground
I completely don't care about this 3rd edition... first and second one I placed pixel every 5 minutes, this one I just saw it because of this post and the result is pathetic
Only reason to bring r/pics now instead of April 1st was to drive the engagement, and by looks of it Reddit succeeded immensely in that.
They baited people and everyone bit it.
I don't think anyone at Reddit cares what message is passed through this as long as they get traffic.
They are like Velma of social media
They only waited one year when we had to wait 5 years for the previous one. No they're fooling us
What is this supposed to accomplish?
"Hey Spez, we're going to use your site, consume the ads you give us, pay for useless premium features, drive up engagement, and participate in your meaningless events but fuck you so take that" - average Redditor
that used to be the average redditor
I would say the average has gotten much much worse if morons like me got fed up with the greedy little pigboy
The only difference now is the "fuck spez" part. All those redditors aren't redditors anymore.
Except they are still redditors, it requires an account to place pixels.
oh god it's pathetic... I remember very well the first r/place, then the second one was super cool too! But this one, wow, super pathetic :-( shame on reddit...
I wonder if there are any shared canvas things like this outside of Reddit? The idea is pretty neat.
There was a website that did this like 20 years ago. Hell if I can find it. Was called something like the one million project.
The Million Dollar Homepage. Some guy made a 1000x1000 canvas and sold every pixel for $1. Lots of dot-com tech companies bought little banners and stuff.
The million dollar homepage. They sold 1 million pixels for $1 each.
I remember Drawball being pretty popular on 4chan back in the mid 2000s. It was a lot of fun.
https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/sites/drawball
Someone has done a similar thing here: https://drawball.io
That's what I don't get. How could they think that this wouldn't happen?
I'm not sure I totally get it, what happened?
/r/places is a thing on Reddit where people cooperate to make art. People are using that opportunity to lambast Reddit at Reddit's expense
Going about as I expected.