I'm personally not willing to visit Reddit unless I need to cause it has technical answers, deleted the app and haven't been on since the protests were announced.
Honestly Lemmy is pretty fucking awesome I love it here, I'm gonna stay here until the community dies or I do.
Yeah, I've regained probably an hour of my life after giving that place up.
Lemmy is my new ~~addiction~~ friend!
I gained atleast an hour every day after leaving Reddit. I Read lots of ebooks again and enjoying my time on lemmy.
I blackholed reddit.com and all sub domains in DNS since the protests started, not looked back.
I did the same thing! It was pretty astonishing how many times I tried to go back there.
If we could get some of the awesome subs like askhistorians and the like to bring their content over, Lemmy could become home to many more users. The sad fact is Reddit is still a treasure trove of niche information
I recently built a PC for the very first time and am very ashamed to admit I had to visit old threads to help me get up and running. It’s such a tragedy what they’ve done to the site, its communities had and still have so much value. Heartbreaking that they’re so determined to run it into the ground and personally nail its own coffin shut.
Someone's already made a subreddit to coordinate using it for protest https://www.reddit.com/r/PlaceAPI/ (likely more than one, this is just the one I saw)
edit: discord link for coordination https://discord.gg/KeH5PzUN
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What fresh hell is this
I almost can't believe it. Now they're just like Twitter, gotta log in to view the shit you want.
Man spez really can’t stop copying Elon. It’s sad really
Spez and Elon sitting in a tree, ruining the internet entirely.
They didn't "review" subs when there was one using images of children as child pornography, without the subjects knowledge or consent.
They didn't "review" subs when mask-off, far-right extremists moved in and started trading slurs and writing murder fantasies.
They didn't "review" subs when reactionaries were spreading dangerous and clearly false medical misinformation in the middle of a pandemic.
But they'll review subs when those subs might be a threat to their revenue.
Old.Reddit doesn’t have that problem though I’m sure they’re working on it
When old.reddit finally goes away is when I will finally stop even the minimal remaining interaction I have with that site.
I wouldn’t put it past the admins to actively try to remove protests on r/place
They want to give their rebelling and unhappy user base a giant digital dry erase board to graffiti and express themselves? That will go great!
I want to see the entire board just say "fuck u/spez!" with a giant middle finger...
Especially when they start censoring any mention of the API changes or the blackout
Yeah it's gonna be a shit show, but for anyone who wants to help draw people over here and take advantage of it, come join the community I just made to make a join lemmy banner on it.
We gonna take it over and continue the message of fuck u/spez?
We'll certainly try. If nothing else make them regret using it as a distraction
But you are back on Reddit in the meantime, and they know that even small engagements are what start to bring people back. It’s like smoking cigarettes, it only takes a few to fall back into the habit. Suddenly your popping by your old favorite communities to check in on things and blah blah blah slippery slope.
Maybe. But it's pretty easy to not contribute even if I succumb to the temptation of swinging by. And reddit gets no ad revenue from me.
Flood it with bots, each managing one pixel to collectively spell out "fuck u/spez"
We need to put a giant “join Lemmy” sign and /or a giant “API” sign to piss them off
I'm definitely going to be helping out with a join lemmy banner somewhere
This is exactly what they want. You'll give them clicks and anything they don't like will be removed.
That would involve interacting with Reddit. No thank you.
Ah, reddit comment bots. Now with...Boomhauer?
For nobody wondering, I'm gonna go with lolno. Moving away from reddit means I'm moving away from reddit, not screaming profanities on their front lawn at 3am like a drunken ex trying to prove how much I don't need them.
Looks like someone continuously hitting the suggested words on there cellphone keyboard.
Also, love the analogy.
Call me boring if you want but this was already overdone and annoying by the second time they did it. Not looking forward to dumb screenshots of hard to understand pixel drama taking over everything again, it will probably be posted all over lemmy too...
I think if you stay off this community and any other reddit related ones you should be fine
let's start our own c/place, with blackjack and hookers!
And my shiny metal ass!
Totally not suspicious timing at all.
I like how they included June 23 in their animation, like they'd been planning to do it for reddit's Very Special 18th birthday and just accidently overshot, instead of "they're foundering and are desperately trying to drive traffic to the site back up so they can tell the advertisers and the investors that traffic and engagement is back up" - without telling them exactly what they did to try to drive traffic back up.
Current view seems to be a great big "API" on the screen, but I absolutely wouldn't put it past them to either skew the accounts (admin accounts can change colors as much as they want!) or do something annoying like arranging for xQc and his little cult to grief the board again (which probably wouldn't take much beyond someone telling him that he was welcome to do so).
Time to make as many Lemmy references as possible on that canvas. Hidden, overt, just everywhere
Lmfao the past few weeks have legit looked like a corpse flailing on the ground, it's nervous system pumping out every desperate attempt at reviving the body.
But make no mistake, the body is dead.
Holy hell they are so desperate it's just sad.
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.
I didn't touch it last time when they made it exclusive to the new site design. Definitely not touching it after everything else.
This is ridiculous
I'm not gonna use reddit ever again, but I can't wait for the shitshow lmao
Quick, someone figure out a way to write 'Fuck u/spez' without increasing site traffic!
Wow, remember when they did something different every April first
Also, this isn't going to keep us distracted - this is an effort to keep the userbase alive - by continually running events and keeping controversy fresh, they can get people's curiosity to get the best of themselves and make the number of active users spike.
My guess is they potentially go public during one of these spikes
Hey 🤨 you guys smell that? 😏it reeks of desperation
