Look, some people are not switching. But if they aren't going to switch, more negative PR for Reddit is the most they can accomplish. We can speculate all we want about the abstract value of negative PR vs engagement, but at the very least I support this over them being there and silent about disliking it.

The members of a site openly despising the site itself encourages migration too. Keep the attention on how lothesome things are and people are more likely to drift away slowly over time.

[–] Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Yeah, Reddit gets something like 52 million daily active users and 450 million monthly users. Lemmy has 500k total and 150k active.

Even if all of Lemmy went over and engaged with Reddit, it wouldn't even be a blip compared to Reddit drawing a portion of their monthly users in. Especially when the discontent is over whether someone is contributing a fractional percent to the vagaries of engagement, and whether that meaningfully benefits Reddit, which is further predicated on this being a big brain move to collect engagement numbers and not Reddit flailing for anything to distract the community.

Might as well sneak a sign for Lemmy into there and use the unhappiness at Reddit to spread the news.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

To be fair. I’ve been visiting to look at the art and drama i am just not participating or recovering my account. Its also yet another way for the staying community to vouch their disapproval.

The world is devided enough as it is, if we allow infighting where Lemmy pioneers on high horses look down on the mainstream reddit user that didnt migtate at once then there not going to want to come here and spez wins.

I am all for a Lemmymigration subreddits for the same reasons. As long as it leads to more valueble content being made here i dont give a fuck on how many traffic reddit gets.

[–] SnowFoxx@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You have a very healthy opinion on this and I must admit, you're right with everything you're saying. Yet I'm surprised how little was necessary to get over the past few months. Yes, there is protest on the canvas, but mainly it's business as usual and a huge success for Reddit. Spez and others realised they need to do something to calm things down and people easily fell for this, especially those on the German subreddits. The canvas was still nearly blank when there was already a huge German flag present. Great job! /s

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 year ago

The germans have a very active r/place sub-community and discord they’ve been prepping for months. It was bound to happen.

[–] Cybersteel@lemmy.ml -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Nay. Certain persons people's should not be allowed to breed.

[–] CallumWells@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Hmmmm, that sounds very much like eugenics. Which generally hasn't been fronted by any free societies. Might wanna rethink your comment.

[–] qwamqwamqwam@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh man this gives me an idea for a great meme. Imagine place, Japan, but instead it’s “place, r/place”.

[–] ObamaBinLaden@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wat

[–] gxgx55@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Reference to this meme:

[–] torafugu@kbin.social 13 points 1 year ago

Ironic. The last time I checked, there was a lot of "Fuck Spez".

[–] NorthWestWind@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

How possible is it that we host an open source c/place?

[–] dmmeyournudes@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Host it? Not hard. Not have it botted to shit? Very hard.

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago

I don't get it. Who does this apply to? Is this even a real person?

Who exactly knows enough to hate spez, yet would somehow get tempted back to reddit by r/place? No one. I haven't seen any posts saying anything like that.

[–] abbadon420@lemm.ee 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

~~Britney~~ /u/spez did nothing wrong! Leave her alone!

[–] eric5949@lemmy.cloudaf.site 2 points 1 year ago

should have place be a mask on spez's face.

[–] Trolled@lemmy.world -3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

what the fuck does this even mean?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

People are suckers for r/place.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I didn't even know what the hell r/place was for a long time because it never worked with third party apps

[–] irmoz@reddthat.com 2 points 1 year ago

...are they? I've only seen posts showing the creation and then demise of spez on a guillotine.

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