Reddit brings back r/place - tomorrow, July 20

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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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let’s be real. /r/place is a good time. It’s going to keep people interested in Reddit and not the tiny corner that’s fighting with Reddit bootlickers to make a Lemmy space.

Did you read the comments on the thread announcing /r/place? It's going to keep people interested in Reddit's fuckups. Those are going to be plastered all over it.

I like Lemmy, it’s much more mellow and the discussions are much better. I’ve given up on Reddit personally. But sometimes people here have a crazy idea in their heads that Reddit is actually going to suffer and lose people and Lemmy is going to take them all in. I don’t think the majority of Reddit is going anywhere even with their fuckups

The majority doesn't have to go anywhere. Just the most engaged people (the ones who will be visiting /r/place, for example) who provide the value that keeps the other ones visiting and viewing ads. Once they're the only ones left the site will be basically a zombie.

It takes time for giants to fall. Digg is still around to this day, and Reddit will likely be around a decade from now too. It just won't be the "front page of the Internet" any more.

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

won't happen though, so we may as well twist it to our use

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 :(

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

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

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.