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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time(www.theverge.com)

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Users are already planning protest art. I personally wouldn’t encourage people to join because it’s more traffic for Reddit, but that’s just me.

On other news, apparently requesting a subreddit now requires a 28d old account with 100+ karma.

EDIT: it's on again, since 20min ago:


The only two recognisable things are the “fuck spez” and nationalists spamming some government flag.

EDIT 2: better view:


I think that the meaning of the sentence in German up there should be rather obvious. It’s on-topic.

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Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world
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Is that the pixel art thing?

…how much of it will just be “fuck u/spez”?

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BeAware@lemmy.world
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Considering the top comment on the announcement post is basically nothing more than

“API”

I’m hoping A LOT. This will be fun to see.

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Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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Is that the pixel art thing?

Yup.

…how much of it will just be “fuck u/spez”?

No idea - the ones who were pissed the most left. But hopefully quite a bit.

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gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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I think some enterprising souls may come back just to coordinate on making /r/place an advertisement for how shitty Reddit is being, as well as increasing awareness of alternatives like lemmy. And I think that’s great.

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doge_d_aspin@lemmy.world
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I suggest, make an art about Spez getting gangbanged by investors and the admins and power tripping mods getting cucked

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Raltoid@lemmy.world
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Since they’re banking on streamers once again competing with eachother, they’re expecting almost none.

Although depending on if/who gets involved there might be a lot.

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IntrovertedEO@sh.itjust.works
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I find it stunning that they’ve decided to go ahead with this. Why the need for a 2023 r/Place when there was 5 years between the first and second? What the hell?

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Lvxferre@lemmy.mlOPM
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Likely an attempt to show that the platform is still able to generate traffic and engagement, plus a really awful attempt of bread and circus. It’s specially bad as people will use it against Reddit Inc. and the platform itself.

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Underwear@lemmy.world
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Because they are seeing the threat that places like Lemmy are providing to users. They need to draw people back to Reddit and distract from the protests that are still a topic.

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Ascend910@lemmy.ml
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Fuck it let’s make c/place, there must be some talented programmers here. We can make a better version

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Sincerely_fatso@lemmy.world
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Probably looking to increase engagement so the market is more favorable during valuation.

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doge_d_aspin@lemmy.world
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So reddit becoming very desperate now, Fuck u/spez and those greedy assholes, using the internet tradition for the sake of the money.

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