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[–] itsgroundhogdayagain@lemmy.ml 207 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I get more Reddit news on Lemmy than I did on Reddit.

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 110 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Completely logical as much of it is removed on Reddit and many of us are curious about our old stomping grounds. It's the people complaining about it that are getting tiring.

[–] Album@lemmy.ca 58 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah I'm satisfied by reading about it though Lemmy so I don't actually have to go there

[–] VaidenKelsier@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

Legit. It's been great, keeping up while not having to actually do anything that might support reddit.

[–] CoderKat@lemm.ee 22 points 2 years ago

Eh, the only problem I have is that it spills into so many communities and that makes it hard to curate your feed. Personally, I do want to see some Reddit stuff. I'm both curious and just plain amused by the drama. But I don't want my feed dominated by it and try to limit my subscriptions of Reddit related communities.

Plus I don't view this as a meme.

[–] shalva97@lemmy.sdfeu.org 11 points 2 years ago

I tried to escape from r/place posts, but couldn't

[–] UnverifiedAPK@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think this should be the last of it until Reddit's IPO, the administration team is just going to sit back and pretend nothing happened in the mean time.

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago

It depends on how much Reddit wants to follow in Elon Musk's steps in destroying their service.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 135 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Apes together still giving Reddit traffic.

It's like writing anti-walmart propaganda on a thousand one dollar bills and then spending them all at Walmart.

[–] DominicO@ttrpg.network 50 points 2 years ago (2 children)

you criticize society... but you participate in society... curious

[–] explodicle@local106.com 47 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Sorry if I'm misinterpreting your comment, but that's usually in reference to people who expect you to make unilateral sacrifices as protest. Foregoing r/place isn't a sacrifice like foregoing a smartphone entirely is; the whole point either way (deface/ignore) is just to send a message.

[–] TimeSquirrel@kbin.social 30 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I'm sorry, I missed the part where Reddit is a integral and necessary part of modern life.

[–] SasquatchBanana@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Reddit isn't but the internet is. The internet has been getting shittier the past year and people feel it. How many times do you append reddit at the end of your google searches? How many times does google send you reddit search results?

Reddit is a remnant of the internet before it got centralized and capitalism fucked it up. Yes, we are federated but a majority won't be switching for a long time. I think there is validity in defacing /r/place as it brings awareness and documents the shitty things the admins are doing. That is very powerful and easy to point and show others what is happening.

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[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.ml 48 points 2 years ago

meh. I'm not interested in participating, but for a short uptick in user activity, a bunch of tech journals will be writing about this and they'll come up is searches about /r/place for years to come. It will be a net lose for spez.

[–] SeedyOne@lemmy.ca 28 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Tiny, insignificant amount of traffic to send a lasting messagem. Worth it.

[–] Millie@lemm.ee 21 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Looks like a shitload of people accessing it several times a day, some watching it like hawks, and an entire genre of Reddit refugees who've taken to advertising it on a daily basis.

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

:NOWAY: Not the 400 people advertising Lemmy vs the at least 30 million Bots and the few million Reddit users.

Look at this and tell me we are a statistic.

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[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 years ago

I mean, poking in and scrolling your old favorite sub for 10 minutes 3 times a day is still substantially less traffic then constantly bumming around on r/all all day

Besides, with the sheer number of reddit users not even including the tens of thousands of bots, the site traffic generated by Lemmy users is probably so small it makes no difference at all

[–] msprout@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago

It's mostly bots anyway.

[–] NightAuthor@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Personally only use Reddit read-only, with ad blocker and anti-tracking. Though I find that I don’t like read-only very much, so I’m spending less and less time on Reddit.

[–] RandomVideos@programming.dev 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Wont everyone leave after r/place ends? Does it matter if the extra traffic is only temporary?

[–] aka_oscar@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Will they? I think theyre gonna find a new way to complain about reddit while still using reddit

[–] genoxidedev1@kbin.social 87 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you to everyone that contributed to this beautiful piece of art🫡

[–] Lapus@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] TheGoldenGod@lemmy.world 84 points 2 years ago (5 children)

He’s the Reddit CEO and allegedly has sex with cats

[–] Swagowicz@kbin.social 34 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I need some fuckin' eye bleach. But this is beautiful... in a sense.

[–] danc4498@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago

Also a moderator or r/jailbait

[–] Mothra@mander.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Woha wait. I missed these allegations, and I'm too dumb to tell if this is just a joke or a joke based on real allegations

[–] NotSteve_@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's sort of true from my understanding. He was added as moderator back when you could add anyone without them accepting it

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[–] rtxn@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I need someone to give me context or so help me god

[–] TotallyNotSpez@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 3 points 2 years ago

I didn't think you were until you brought it up, now I'm suspicious

[–] wildcardology@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You should use his real name, so people outside of reddit will fuck him too.

[–] Kalothar@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Steve Huffman, that the piece of shit you talking about?

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[–] moonmeow@lemmy.ml 30 points 2 years ago

why are people indulging this company after all they did?

[–] yeepyorp@mtgzone.com 30 points 2 years ago

stop using reddit

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago

More like "botnets strong". That's what really soured me on the second /r/place, it was completely taken over by crypto fanatics and meme stock morons running bots.

[–] HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

How does r/space (or whatever) actually work, anyway? Do you only get to edit X amount of pixels per day or something? I imagine they’d have to limit it in some way, or it would change too much too quickly.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You get to place one pixel every so-and-so minutes only. To build anything of size people need to collaborate.

[–] Ricaz@lemmy.ml 13 points 2 years ago (5 children)

But in reality it's just a bunch of neckbeards with 100 reddit accounts each and a script to paint a bitmap

[–] Goblin_Mode@ttrpg.network 4 points 2 years ago

Yeahhh..

When a smaller community comes together to make something uncomplicated and sincere it's really really cool.

But everything bigger than 50x50 is all but guaranteed to be bots. Place stopped being fun halfway through last year honestly

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[–] Agentseed@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

previously it was one pixel every five minutes, I don't know about now though, as I deleted my account

[–] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Mandy@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Man yall really showed spez by using his.website and giving his site traffic!

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