“Fuck spez” they don’t care about. What we should do is a giant Lemmy flag, but that’s absolutely not something that would be possible unfortunately.
I can’t wrap my head around how people don’t understand that ANY participation from people who “quit” reddit is exactly what reddit wants.
Trying to write a URL in /r/place is impossible even for much larger communities.
I like that they were able to coordinate enough to make “fuck spez” so visible (plus the “spez ist ein H*rensohn” = “spez is a son of a b*tch”). I just wish that they focused on the big picture - Spez himself is just a tool (in both senses) for Reddit Inc., and it’s the whole corporation that should be screwed over.
Yes, but it’s also a symbol. And there seems to be enough of a consensus in the zeitgeist, that that message appears to be somewhat self-organizing as a common sentiment. For something chaotic like /r/place that sort of undercurrent is a boon.
It’s easier to organise people towards a “fuck spez” than the other alternatives, I agree. But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much. And nationalists are already covering the message here and there with their flags.
But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much.
Like the Occupy Wall street movement. It got a lot of attention, organized a lot of people, and accomplished nothing. People were like “what is this for?” And the answer was pretty much “we’re angry!”, So the reply was just “okay…”
I don’t agree with the user above, but there’s no need to use a sarcastic tone towards them.
Not bad, but it needs more pro-Rexit messaging. A few highly visible Lemmy links would be nice.
It doesn’t matter, it’s a bait to raise engagement metrics and a lot of people are falling for it.
Meh, any engagement bump will be fleeting, and meanwhile they’re going to have another round of Reddit Sucks articles about either a) /r/place being taken over by anti-reddit people or b) Reddit censoring /r/place.
Ayep. It’s a clever move to get a July traffic bump to offset any losses from the unpopular API etcetera decisions. Then they can point to the overall numbers and say hey, our average visits per user actually went up after we closed the API, so this is proof our users actually love all our shitty recent decisions.
Sorry for the double reply - just sharing a few of the current highlights:
Reddit alien with "spez" on the face, in the guillotine
"fuck spez" in two areas of the canvas
"never forget what was stolen from us! r/savethirdpartyapps"
From the last years, it seems to me that there’s less vandalism, and less overall fights for pixels. This might be due to lower engagement.
I tried to fix it, but from Voyager (wefwef.app)'s side it was even worse, so I undid it. It’s working fine on the desktop, and following Lemmy’s commonmark guide, so I think that the issue is from wefwef’s side of the things (check if there’s a bug report about this in their github).