/r/place: Our beautiful lemmy banner above the 3rd party app protest has been wiped out, please help us rebuild from the right at 38,-25

realitista@lemmy.world to Reddit@lemmy.world – 263 points –

xQc came and totally wiped us out. We have a lot of work in front of us and we are a bit too small a team to hold this space if someone decides to take it from us. I'm really proud of how well we've been able to advertise Lemmy and fuck things up with our allies in Fuck Spez and Black Company (doing the 3rd party apps protest). Help us to close out /r/place with our banner intact!

We are rebuilding from the g at the end of the url at 38,-25

Chat is at https://app.element.io/#/room/#lemmyplace:data.haus

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Listen, for the last 2-3 months, I've only visited Reddit to participate in /r/RedditAlternatives. I've moved everything here. I want to make that happen for others too. I'm happy here.

I don't even subscribe to this subreddit or any of the ones about other social media sites. I tend to downvote anything I do see about Reddit or Twitter, because I just don't need to hear about them any more.

I'm driving very little traffic Reddit's way, and the only time I do so is to hasten it's demise. The most people that we ever had on the chat planning this banner was around 10 that I saw.

This is getting tons of press. I'm quite certain we drove more people here than we drove traffic there. It's worth it IMO.

I'm sure they're hating that 1% of their users is spamming /r/place with bot visits, but I think you have to realize that there's no "fight" to be won and reddit definitely isn't facing any type of demise.

If you like Lemmy, help improve it and stop talking about reddit.

How else can people help it improve other than spreading awareness about it? While I have no doubt there's a lot of developers using Lemmy, it's not like every Lemmy user is a developer.

I'd argue that coming to other platforms begging people to go to Reddit is more impactful than your own personal browsing even if you hadn't changed your habits at all. It's just ragebait and Reddit knows it. Stop playing into their hand.