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Edit 7 at 1st day, 5:26 PM: Updated picture, also I’m gonna chill with the updates for now. Next update is scheduled for 5:50 PM
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There’s no way the guillotine went away naturally.
Which is the point of all of this. They’ve been flexing their ability to control the flow of information on their site to show off for investors since the minute they announced the API changes. They’re going to use Place to further demonstrate the level of control they have over the userbase by “shutting down the protests.” Advertisers and investors are going to be eating this up, especially since so many people are still engaging and giving hate-clicks along the way. Imagine how attractive a completely pliable and obedient userbase of literal millions of progressive swing voters is going to look.
I notice they’ve left in all the Fuck Spez stuff, while removing anything “promoting violence”.
Eventually he’ll see himself out the door with an enormous payoff. The reddit faithful will cheer his departure, but none of what he’s done will be reversed.
Reddit wants to be TikTok because that makes money.
If I wanted TikTok I’d have downloaded it.
I didn’t. So I left.
Oh, also, fun fact. You cannot access it via old.reddit.com. They want to push users away from that too so they force you to use their new retard-friendly UI filled with ads.
Oh.
The day they force me off old.reddit, is the day I stop occasionally lurking around on my second monitor. As of now, I’m active here, consciously here, and occasionally grabbing news from communities that have not migrated on PC.
Imagine making your UI worse with every iteration.
That’s when I gave up trying to see the canvas myself. Thanks for the screenshot, OP’
You’re welcome, @Puppy@kbin.social
Going to call it. Right before place ends, they’re going to completely wipe all the Fuck Spezes.
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Still no lemmy ads 😔
Lets protest reddit by engaging with r/place for hours instead of leaving the site for literally anywhere else. that’ll show spez.
Reddit wants a happy, active r/place banner just post the changes to prove to investors that this hasn’t damaged their brand.
I hear what you’re saying, but fucking with the image they’re trying to portray is far more damaging that boycotting them, in this particular case.
They don’t have a meeting with Toyota and say “check out the community banner our users created”
They say “we launched a promo that lasted 48 hours (or w/e the fuck it is) and community engagement was through the roof. We had an increase of x% users during this time. The next time we will do this it will be $X amount for X amount of ad space so you can get in front of X amount of users”
I haven’t seen r/place but I bet there are 0 ads on that page. Reddit is smarter than to sell ad space next to FUCK SPEZ and My Little Pony Porn. What they will do is increase ad prices for the next “event”.
No matter what you think, this engagement is supporting them.
It’s really not. They do not give a shit about what it looks like. All they care about is clicks for ad revenue. They waited from 2017 to 2022 to re-do place, then they do it again a year later, directly after introducing a ton of unpopular changes?
Naw fam, this is 100% them generating traffic and anyone that keeps going to place is falling right into their hands, regardless of what message they think they’re sending.
The advertisers aren’t going to care about a banner. Reddit is going to tell them, “yeah there were some protests and a minor dropoff in traffic, but see how well we rebounded and even grew in July!”. Every single click on that thing counts as “traffic” and you can bet that that’s exactly how reddit is going to sell it.
