Totally not suspicious timing at all.

Also if you’re willing to visit reddit, the comments under the post are great. They’re not fooling anyone.

120 points

This makes me sick honestly. r/place is one of the nicest memories I have of Reddit and now they’re using it as a cheap tactic to bait us to come back. Really a low blow.

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I’m betting it’s going to be either overrun with protest content and Lemmy advertisement, or it’ll be so heavily locked down and curated that it’ll be an obvious shell of its former self.

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33 points

It doesn’t matter because even if it ends up with the greatest fuck spez message ever it’s still engagement on the site and that’s what they’re looking for.

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12 points

If the “engagement” consists of people seeing advertisements for alternatives to Reddit and reasons why they should be trying them out, I’m fine with spez thinking he’s “won” somehow because a line briefly went up.

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The last one was great for the fuck cars movement; this one easily has the potential to be similarly good for the threadiverse even despite any Reddit engagement it entails in the short run.

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10 points

The biggest fuck you that can be sent is the thing staying completely empty

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40 points

I’m going with both. It will be a free for all at first with a ton of protest stuff and after a day (maybe less) they will realize “oh shit we forgot this was the internet” and then lock it down.

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2 points

I never tried it, thinking, “there’s always next year.”

Fuck Spez. I’ll go back to Reddit to protest there and then leave again, bye it’s not what I’d hoped.

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3 points

I feel pretty confident that there are gonna be some protest graphics :P

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2 points

I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a lot more far right content on it this time round. :(

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24 points

Corporations don’t care about you or your nice memories, unless they can monetise that somehow. Something to keep in mind. It’ll be reddit trying to abuse us today, and some other business in the future if we let them.

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I know that, sadly. Doesn’t stop me from feeling disgusted by it.

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12 points

I feel like it’s a thing you really can do only once. Just like Twitch plays Pokémon. It’s super exciting when no one knows what’s the outcome. People try to figure it out in real time.

But the second time you already know what’s going to happen. People have already figured it out. Subs had already worked out plans before it even started.

Any attempt at replicating it becomes stale in comparison.

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7 points

I feel it might remain special with enough time between events. Once every 4+ years allows enough shift in users and internet culture to make each unique, if not as special as the first time. Allow every Reddit-“generation” to make their mark.

This one is just empty, though.

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1 point

Not really. It’s like trying to recreate Woodstock. It’s just not the original.

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3 points

Yeah and it’s also too much effort for communities to band together around it every year. Someging that requires this much effort from communities should remain once every 5 years, otherwise they’ll stop participating.

Not that it even matters at this point :(

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35 points

let’s start our own c/place, with blackjack and hookers!

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13 points

And my shiny metal ass!

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Pretty sure there was a thing like r/place but for streamers. So they’re are ahead of ya there at least.

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275 points

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.

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53 points

Yeah, I’ve regained probably an hour of my life after giving that place up.

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5 points

I still accidentally type it into web browser from time to time but it’s usually only a few secs before I realize my error

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Just one? Rookie numbers

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6 points

Daily?

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32 points

Lemmy is my new addiction friend!

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15 points

I gained atleast an hour every day after leaving Reddit. I Read lots of ebooks again and enjoying my time on lemmy.

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4 points

Are you me? I’ve been listening to a ton of audiobooks since I got off reddit

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24 points

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

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8 points

I think you’re right; Askhistorians is a great example of the power and necessity of moderation. Not every community needs to be so heavily moderated, but askhistorians knew what they were going for and we’re willing to work to maintain it.

Tangentially related, I had a friend who had studied History at Oxbridge who was excited to discover ask historians existed, but bewildered (and slightly offended, ha) when one of his answers was rejected. The problem was that he was used to speaking to other academics, and that uses a different style of speaking and citing sources; on the internet, and ask historians more specifically, it’s much harder to lean on one’s credentials than in real life, and I think that’s a good thing. (My friend get over himself and resubmitted the answer)

In context, it’s straightforward and logical, but it does tickle me to remove that context and consider it as “ask historians has higher standards than Oxbridge”

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1 point

Interesting feedback

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9 points

I feel as if I can have an actual conversation with someone here even if we have two fundamentally different world views where it won’t devolve into name calling. Conversations can be productive even if neither opinions change.

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10 points

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.

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7 points

In depth technical knowledge is the thing I’m having a hard time replacing too. Hopefully lemmy can replace it with time and more users

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42 points

I blackholed reddit.com and all sub domains in DNS since the protests started, not looked back.

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18 points

I did the same thing! It was pretty astonishing how many times I tried to go back there.

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I feel like instead of writing ‘fuck spez’ on reddit, the best decision is to ditch it completely. I mean, I do still visit reddit due to some niche communities that don’t have that big of a user-base on lemmy, but clearly reddit exists for 10+ years. The change can’t happen overnight. In any case, I am still astonished by how quickly lemmy got that much traffic. From a small village, it has turned into a city, it’s incredible. :)

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I hate how the people keep spamming “SPRICH DEUTSCH DU HURENSOHN” (I know what that means, I am German, also very funny and totally not overused ) below every single comment.

Maybe I’m OOTL on whatever announcement they made on ich_iel but this seems like they’re meme-ing on the people that want to put stuff like “API” or “fuck u/spez” on the canvas and I do not see the positive in meme-ing on them since that’s pretty much the only thing left to do.

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SPRICH

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NIEDERLÄNDISCH

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3 points

BESSER

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1 point

Oh, do be quiet.

Och, halt doch die Klappe.

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