I’m, honestly, not surprised. It’s like, what were they expect?
i think using r/place to list reddit alternatives would hurt them more
They expected to show a large influx of visits when they create an event. They will show user counts and to the result to their investors. It’s all calculated and we’re all falling for it.
Surely any decent investment means they research the company. That’d be stupid business decisions. Although, Investors are immoral.
Investors are immoral. And they research the company but they don’t necessarily tour the whole thing. If they research the numbers. Then they see this. Now the whole gate is towards Spez. I bet we will soon see an announcement where he steps down (with a bonus) and the investors can be reassured that it’s all good. Plus they get huge visit numbers.
People that keep making this dumbass “engagement” claim have no goddamn idea what they’re talking about. Nobody is falling for jack shit. The “engagement” of people going on to place to troll is miniscule. Like you said, half of us aren’t looking at this on Reddit. It’s being broadcast everywhere else and the tech outlets that an investor will see are reading about how much the user base fucking hates the product.
I mean I do analytics on site engagement metrics professionally, like as my job that pays me money, and based on that and past instances of r/place, I can make an educated guess that:
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They were desperate to improve July usage numbers because projections were looking shitty after the events of the past month.
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r/place has traditionally been a good way to juice engagement numbers
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They pulled a lever they knew would generate the results they needed
Is it temporary? Sure. But this buys them some time and August’s numbers are August’s problem.
Here’s are the stats from a previous instance of r/place:
Social platform Reddit re-introduced its collaborative social experiment r/Place on April 1, leading to the highest daily active users (DAUs) its mobile app has ever seen
So yeah, they’ll get the juice they need, probably, but the fact that they were compelled to even need to pull that lever says a lot, imo.
…and they all logged in to make it happen…
My baconreader icon opens Lemmy. That’s how you actually say fuck spez.
Dumbasses
How did you make that work? I’d love to keep opening baconreader, if only superficially… It’s been 11 years.
I put the icon for one of the Lemmy apps (don’t recall which I went with actually, tried all I could find and chose a fave) on my phones quick bar, and then edited the icon and replaced it with the bacon icon :)
It’s the same icon I’ve had for a decade, in the same place it’s always been, it just opens a different app now.
Let reddit users stay there, a lot of us are on Lemmy because we don’t like the direction reddit is headed.
It doesn’t impact us if reddit gets good traffic.
That being said, I’m rooting for reddits downfall and it’s very entertaining seeing the backlash
Reddit can take all their fake and inflated as fuck engagement numbers and shove it up their arse, for all I care.
Play on r/place, don’t play on r/place, doesn’t matter. Lemmy is big enough that it is its own thing now. People that want something different will come. As much as it would be nice to have essentially a crowd-run ad campaign for Lemmy, I respect anyone committing to not visiting Reddit again for any reason.
I’m more surprised they let it stay up.
I’m not sure where they got their information, but The Independent says
Reddit Place is set to continue for the next four days, allowing users to contribute to its evolving creation.
