What’s the over-under on how long it takes before fuck u spez or API get spelled out?

My bet is about 90 seconds.

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    All the protests will do nothing but drive traffic. Best response is no response.

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      I think you’re right that the best response is no response, but the protests do have an effect beside driving traffic. Investors won’t want to be involved in a company at war with its userbase, so if protests are loud and long enough it could mess us reddits IPO plans. So for the users who just aren’t ready to give up reddit, spamming protest comments is probably their best bet.

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        There’s no such thing as bad engagement.

        Especially when an IPO is coming, because the first thing they do is get a fall guy, then blame all the bad actions on them and the old CEO.

        “New reddit” then comes in and plays the good guy

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          Agreed. The people who are pitching r/place as “entertainment” are people who want to stay engaged with reddit and enjoy drama. I’m done with Reddit now that they’ve killed Apollo and don’t care to hear about it anymore.

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        Yep is anyone is still a user logging in anyway then may as well.do.this…but to log.in especially for it, when you otherwise would not have logged a Reddit hit will give spez what he wants

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      And if people DO start being problematic, reddit mods will just start erasing things by hand. They were spotted doing it last year.

      Honestly, the correct way to protest would be to just spam KBIN and Lemmy everywhere in /r/place.

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      All the protests will do nothing but drive traffic.

      Which is the EXACT reason they’re doing it again all of sudden. This was not scheduled by any means but the dumpster fire for the past weeks causes them to grasp for straws. It’s a pathetic attempt to get users back that their psychopathic methods drove away.

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      Yup. The whole premise of a social media platform is to stay relevant. Ignoring it altogether is the best method to kill it off.

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      If we can drive traffic away from Reddit afterwards then isn’t that a better response?

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      It’s only for a few days so not a big deal if anyone wants to go protest over there. I never really participated in it so I’ll probably pass.

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    The first one was beautiful. The second one was ruined by censorship. The third is pure desperation, its not even April 1st.

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      The third is pure desperation, its not even April 1st.

      The whole platform became a joke though, so there’s that.

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        Got to get those engagement numbers back up for the future share holders. I like to think the code was kept in a little glass box that says exodus use only.

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        An admin was caught editing pixels without cooldown to draw over several communities’ art. Iirc, it was mainly to overwrite NSFW art. When people noticed, the comments that mentioned it got deleted

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          I remember thinking it was bizarre how angry people seemed to be about that, like it was a huge scandal. It doesn’t matter, it’s not important! Go do something else!

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      I’m pretty sure the second one was where we did the iconic “he laughed” panel from One Piece - so not a total loss IMO.

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      Didn’t they do that last time? I recall entire sections instantly reset when porn was being constructed.

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    Probably 3 minutes, tops, in a neutral setting, but every reddit employee and pro-dumbass mod knows that’s the first thing anyone is going to do, so they’ll be up all night alongside their bots, cheating and shadowbanning like last time. Not that I’m naming names, Chtorr.

    No way under god will they allow the kinds of things users are about to depict happening to spez

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    Can almost guarantee as soon as the admins see something close to being API related being created they’ll remove it

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      I bet they have some bots around to replace anything bad. There were some brief NSFW stuff last time they did this that got overwritten really really quick and suddenly.

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    *Text in black: FUCK SPEZ GO LEMMY

    Full screen. Would be hilarious 😂

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      Should we do this? All of lemmy go back to write “go to lemmy” or something?

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      Nah, I wouldn’t want everyone to come over here, forcing all the corps & business interests to focus on this place and figure out how to monetize it.

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    Is there going to be any push to put the fediverse logo up? Anti-Reddit stuff might be removed, but that has a better chance of sticking around.

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      Best to just ignore.it. they are doing this to cause engagement numbers to go.up. the best protest is a damp.squib of indifference

      “I don’t hate you…that requires you to enter my mind…I just do not think about you at all”

      If you log on even to vandalise, it counts as a logon for this quarters metrics

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    I remember the 1st one it was magic! Second one was ok but censorship and bots killed it

    3rd one? I dunno I quit Reddit last month after 13 years…

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    Looks like they are just baiting users to the site to get some traffic. Given how the user base is still pretty annoyed with Reddit I can’t imagine this is going to go well for Reddit.

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    r/spaces was dead as soon as the first one ended. Whether you feel indifferent about what happened the past couple of weeks or Reddit as a whole, or simply despise Spez. You’ll be disappointed either way. They will censor the crap out of it.

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    Panem et circenses to calm the masses and also to improve search results for the term ‘reddit’.

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      Ha! Jokes on them, I avoid using search engines if I know the full link (which for reddit’s r/place is https://reddit.com/r/place ) and when I do use search engines, I use Brave Search, so it doesn’t even feed into Google or Bing’s popularity contest where the show popular searches.