“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.
Trying to write a URL in /r/place is impossible even for much larger communities.
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.
It’s a nerd place for nerd groups and the only thing it shows is who manage to gather the highest number of most terminally online people.
How long has it been going? Took me about 5 mins to get their stupid app working to place a pixel. Contributed to the f spez.
lol you can just use old.reddit.com/r/place
On mobile, they’re forcing you to use their app, can’t do it in a phone browser. So dumb. Clearly grabbing for dowmloads
I’m guessing that it’s been a popular engagement device in the past that they are using it to drive numbers of connected and participating members. Each pixel perhaps represents a post.
Not a bad idea but very short lived. And the outcome will be an f to spez lol. I’ll buy that t-shirt.
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.
I don’t agree with the user above, but there’s no need to use a sarcastic tone towards them.
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…”
Einigkeit und Recht und Freiheit meine Kerle.