Edit: we’ve made it! Timelapse
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To use the template, install the r/place userscript (guide) and click the above link. If you already have the userscript, just add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/jlemmybig.json into the “Always Load” list.
Also, please no “tHiS iS eNgAgEmEnT fOr rEdDiT” comments. Would you rather have no such banner? As I’m not pushing anyone to become a long-term active user on Reddit, I don’t see any benefit for the company from this. If you have a spare account, this may be a good cause to fire it up for a few hours.
Who fucks a pez?
Just signed up because of the banner. However…its got “.org” at the end currently. I’ll commit to helping keep it correct then swear off Reddit.
.org is correct
What’s correct accordind to you?
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Bad analogy.
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The real point is doing something that gets attention. Buying beer just to pour it down the drain is dumb. Buying beer to make a video of you pouring it down the drain then posting that video to social media is protest. The difference is all about how many people see/hear you, and how many other people decide to join your cause.
Likewise, continuing to buy the product after all the protest is hypocritical showmanship, but buying a single 12 pack as a prop and never buying that product again for is boycotting. Keep in mind that the type of people who buy a case or two of bud light at a time are often the type of people who buy that much every week. If enough of those people switch brands, it might create a blip on on the company’s radar at the very least.
Now my cynical point of view is that major companies no longer care very much about negative publicity. No matter how many shitty things the company does and no matter how shitty those acts are, people will still buy their product. Boycotting works on smaller companies because you can meaningfully impact their bottom line. That’s rarely the case with massive corporations.
Your engagement is more important to them than your message. So yeah, I’d rather not have it 🤷
Edit: pretty sure the very large social media company already expected people to create stuff like this before they opened r/place, and they decided it was worth it. So yeah I’m still gonna say that if they let this type of messaging happen it’s not gonna matter in the slightest. I don’t think they’re that stupid like y’all do.
How much is engagement? Is it worth more than exposure? Can I pay you by sharing this art on my 10k-follower Instagram account?
Wut
This is a reference to “Exposure does not pay bills”.
Engagement does not pay bills, either. There were more bots than regular users so nobody who does any research will believe Reddit’s numbers, and any visuals of the event show how much people hate Reddit admins, so they’re unlikely to be able to brag about the event’s “success” to investors.
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Ah yes, the old “It’s still engagement” angle.
Do you really think it would be a major addition to their views if even a whole major instance of lemmy joined? The bot accounts alone being used there would overshadow the number of lemmings that engage there. And that doesn’t even count streamers with tens of thousands of minions. Even if 20,000 lemmings went there, it won’t make a mark. A lot of people, shockingly, are still ignorant of what happened. Idk how that’s even possible but there you go.
They. Will. Get. Their. Views. Regardless.
Might as well get something out of it.
Your engagement is more important to them than your message.
Not if your message would prevent them from using it for advertisers. They’ve been removing nipples, dicks, piss, guillotines, etc and people still put them there. How do you think advertisers will react to that when they don’t want their brands associated with “unsavory” stuff?
Also it is really funny to put a Lemmy advertisement on Reddit’s thing
Personally, i enjoy watching people insist on adding nipples and piss to some artwork and watch admins give up on being subtle and erasing it wholesale, but that’s just me. But yeah, what you said is hilarious, too.
This is also helpful because Reddit will not be able to brag about the event to investors without FUCK SPEZ or other offensive stuff showing, and any investor who does basic research will realize that their engagement statistics are inflated by bots anyway.
Sadly this message is already being overwritten by bots
Edit: the message about 3rd party apps is also being overwritten
Luckily the group doing the message about third-party apps is very coordinated so they have so far been able to protect it for a few days now
So it didn’t take long for Reddit to turn into bots interacting with other bots
Dead Internet theory
Reddit is Deaddit.
That is spooky. Of course I had to go look it up. Contrary to that first part of the Wikipedia page, this is no longer conspiracy. It’s becoming the reality.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Internet_theory
That’s Reddit for real now. Especially with the rise of AI and similar
Not a theory anymore. It’s becoming a real life experiment at this point.
I was going to ask if anyone was using bots to keep their messages up. That’s cool!
I’m just not interested in Reddit anymore. Haven’t logged in since July 1st. Deleted the app and, I’m just lurking to see how this shitshow will end up. My 2 cents is that Reddit will gradually fall since a lot of the content creators, moderators and engaged people have left and a lot more will leave. It will take a lot of time but it will.
Great work guys. Now let’s keep lemmy on there
Nobody will come to lemmy if they don’t know it exists so it’s worth it even if it gives reddit so engagement
Spez ist ein hurensohn!
I love how it’s kind of anti-aliased with the gray pixels
I like it too, it’s a genius detail tbh
Thanks! I tried to replicate the famous DIN (aka Bahnschrift) font. The anti-aliasing was neccessary to fit into such a cramped space while keeping a slick font. Some say that this is the first antialiased text on this year’s Place - it’s not: other examples include 東方 (Touhou) (where Bad Apple!! was), the “osu!” logo, the “Gotcha anything else?” meme, the entire Charizard card, parts of the Vista UI, the Olympia logo (main German flag above Starry Night) and one I also drew: the Horalky wafer. Antialiasing is worth it if the community is well coordinated and will help against vandalism - it is harder to change one letter into another. This is why we avoided amogusification of the
A.A big problem with the design is the
Jtouching the logo. I have removed the leftmost two pixels to fix it but copies of my template were left unpatched so IDK if I get to change it.
Love that our text has anti-aliasing lol
Yeah, it also kinda helps against vandalism. I also helped design the Horalky wafer for Slovakia.
For anyone concerned about traffic to reddit, the absolute best thing you can do is find ads next to “offensive” content and e-mail the CEOs and marketing departments of those companies saying you won’t use those products due to their ad placement on reddit. Literally nothing else will hurt them faster.
I’m fairly sure leaving the platform will hurt more. I left June 30th. Haven’t looked back.
If you use an ad blocker and don’t buy premium then reddit doesn’t benefit from you outside of any content you post
You increase the daily/monthly active users count if they count only visiting people as well. Only by 1, but still. If they are using that number in any kind of negotiation with other companies to persuade them to do business with them (ad-related or otherwise), you probably wouldn’t want to increase that number.
Not much, but it’s honest work.Edit: I’m not talking about this message in r/place in particular. I think this is awesome!
I honestly kinda don’t want the general population of Reddit to join. I like that this place feels like pre-redesign Reddit.
The culture of the community massively started shifting around the time Alien Blue got bought out.
but we need lemmy to grow! I would say that the benefits on Lemmy growing outweighs a few members being “bad.” (couldn’t think of a better word)
Everyone deserves to be able to find salvation from Reddit
Yeah you’re right
eh maybe, I thought each server would have it’s own little community culture unlike reddit. if you want to see less people and enjoy a more specific culture you could join a server akin to what u want, was hoping it’d be less one place than the many interterting places i was sold
Federation makes it feel like one big site. I’m not saying I want to exclude people though. I just selfishly like the vibe right now
Y’know…Thats based.
Gatekeeping lemmy lmao
Hehehe, This is amazing!
Wow, we were allowed a few pixels for a few minutes, granted by our corporate overlords whom valiantly watch over every pixel to ensure they get the maximum IPO value! Just kidding, the bots decided to make it another flag or osu image or some stupid shit.
The message has been there since day 1 surprisingly they haven’t tried censoring it yet.
edit: sorry should have fact checked it’s being overwritten by shitstains with some W1 poster whatever thats supposed to be (bots of course)
edit2: TIL its the logo for KICK of course that explains everything
edit3: they’re mostly back now 😎👍
It is still advertising for rdt. Why hype that?
