What we really need to do is start writing down all the Lemmy instances. It’s one thing to tell off reddit, it’s another thing to get people off of reddit.
Mod reminder: We do have a rule against brigading. I know this is a special case - but please keep it respectful if you are planning to represent the Fediverse on r/place.
I didn’t make the rules. I took over as top moderator yesterday. In general, we don’t want you to use this community to plan a brigade in a way that would make the Fediverse look bad. I could reword the rule to include that. It hasn’t even been an issue until today. It’s the first time I’ve seen it happening in the comments.
Part of me doesn’t like the fact that this is just giving Reddit engagement.
But another part of me is happy that this is here, even if it’ll inevitably get destroyed this is honestly a really sweet gesture.
Gotta love it! I wonder if spez is paying any attention at all. Or better yet if the actual people in charge are.
There’s no way they aren’t aware of this. But also: what did they expect?
Pretty sure they’re just gambling that this’ll give them a bump in installs/logins with their mobile app that they can use to boost their figures for IPO.
I think they are leaving some of it up so the spez stans can “come to his defence” and this constant back and forth will generate traffic which is what he would use to convince investors to invest.
All this is doing is driving up engagement for reddit. If you wanna protest then just stay off reddit. This isn’t to say I don’t enjoy seeing this, cause it is hilarious, but it’s still giving them what they want, engagement.
I don’t necessarily agree, if one persons short term engagement results in five people’s long term disengagements then it’s a net gain and a good investment!
It doesn’t hurt to use these opportunities to remind people of the reasons to abandon Reddit (and of course of all the various alternatives that exist).
At this rate, it’s like shouting against a wall and expect it to melt down by itself – spez gets a nice sum of money in his pockets each time someone goes to reddit to whine post about him.
I’m skeptical about that because if that was the case, why would they have needed to shake things up in the first place? They just make their profit and users continue using whatever front end they want. Instead they’ve burned bridges with people who were giving them free labour and have never been profitable.
