Reddit seems to be fully aware what users are likely to do in the current climate. Do they think people who aren’t angry will be louder than everyone else, do they have a plan for protests, or are they just letting the chips fall?
By the way, this announcement helped me solve where the ugly pixelated Reddit app logo is from: you can see it in Reddit’s r/Place announcement video. For some reason, that video also includes pixelated images of a fire in a garbage can.
Brutal.
Probably their line of thinking is that it doesn’t really matter where the chips fall as long as the chips can be cashed in. If they can make ad money on protest traffic then so be it. (I’m not fully convinced that this is the case (that protest traffic brings in ads revenue), but who knows.)
Maybe they just want another safe sub. At least they know that r/Place won’t go NSFW or go private in protest.
At least they know that r/Place won’t go NSFW
inb4 giant blue dick
People should just put sexual stuff on R/Place to make it as advertiser unfriendly as possible
They’d probably just remove that (and would have a good argument for doing so). I suggest either not giving it traffic or drawing links to Reddit alternatives.
Time to apply Rule 34 to r/Place
The whole point of r/Place was to happen only so occasionally. I really got hyped for the second one, because I was too late for the first one. It happening every year would kill the hype for me. So thanks, I’ll pass and stay logged out.
It seems most people there are on board with making a giant “fuck u/spez” in the center of the canvas. It’s not like reddit easily forgets, even if we don’t really do anything about it.
They will just censor it. I mean they censored nudity on it (I’m not advocating for it, just they have the capability for it). Its just better not to drive traffic there.
Reddit gets traffic and clicks regardless of what people write on the canvas
What a stark difference between last year and this year. Last year there was the outpouring of support for Ukraine. This year it will be a “fuck u/spez” shit show.
How many drawings of John Oliver can we anticipate seeing?
@Bishma At this point I think the Fediverse might make a big stance on it, I know I would love to help keep that on there even if I have to log back into my Reddit.
And could they censor it if it’s not offensive? We could just make Kibby and Lemmy. I mean, I’m down. Or just the fediverse logo!
@Pandantic Even just pixeled text saying Fediverse would be cool as that would get users questioning what it is.
Or maybe a QR code that goes to an intro to the fediverse post/video! We should really plan this and make it. I hate Reddit, but I’m willing to go back to bring awareness to the fediverse.
QR codes are WAY too easy to break with a few wrong pixels tho. Would be almost impossible to keep it intact. Text is a better alternative. Or logos because people might leave it alone as you draw it waiting to see what it becomes.
@Pandantic The QR code is cool but it would require a lot of work to keep it the same QR code making it hard to do.
I actually think they’re cashing in on the media coverage the protests produced. And this article is proof it’s worked. But the Verge were covering Reddageddon practically every day
I hope this year’s place has both Lemmy’s and Kbin’s logo.
Josh Wardle, who would later go on to create and then sell Wordle, thought up the idea for r/Place, according to Newsweek
Wat? Apparently this dude keeps bottles of lightning in his desk drawer and just breaks one out whenever he feels like it.
Yeah, that surprised me too.
