If you want to get back at Reddit, forget it exists. Stop giving them traffic. Stop contributing to their daily active user account, and participating in activities that boost KPIs for their IPO. Encourage your friends to do the same. The way to devalue Reddit is letting it fall into irrelevance, not making cute little “Fuck Spez” drawings on r/place.
So they really did a r/place again this year…
More like r/bots.
Like, ok, there were bots in the previous r/place events, but this one is fucking stuffed with bots. Every piece of art on that page has been entirely botted, except maybe for the sad Turkish flag that keeps trying to get the star right.
never ceases to amaze me. So many people hate spez and reddit, yet they still keep using it.
I hate some food, should I stop eating now? Pretty sure you do, too. Do you still eat? (also, I’m asian so don’t tell me you don’t hate any food or I’ll put you up to it lol)
This is an overly simplistic take (and a blatantly reddit way of thinking - black and white, anyone?). Now I don’t use reddit anymore but went back for r/place. Why? Because I felt like spreading the word about alternatives (not just lemmy/kbin) is much better than just letting do their thing. I’ve already explained in a recent post how that won’t affect traffic much, so I won’t explain anymore. After that, I’m deleting everything again. I hate spez and what he is doing to reddit, but do I hate the small niche reddit communities I’ve made connections with over the years?
Are you still eating food that you hate? Why would you do that, is that supposed to be something you’re proud of? Should we be in awe of you because you’re doing something that doesn’t make any sense?. I don’t get it.
And we’re doing exactly what they want us to do, giving them attention and clicks.
I’m so tired of seeing this take. And this is from someone who hasn’t opened a reddit link since July 1st.
Yeah, I agree that we shouldn’t give them traffic. But do you think that the people like us are the ones driving that sentiment of “never forget what they stole”? Believe it or not, there exists a base of users who still browse reddit and want to see change. Those are users driving their engagement regardless of what they do. So why not spend that time protesting or sending a message?
Also, id get that take if this were like, a general news community, but this is literally the reddit news community. Reddit news is why we’re all subbed here right? We all have nostalgia for what reddit once fostered and I think most of us still have a glimmer of hope that it might be a decent place again
It’s such an oversimplification, it’s insane. “YoUrE sTiLl uSiNg ReDdIT”
I wonder if people with that same sentiment go to picketing protestors and yell at them, “Just quit!!”
As if the idea of trying to promote change rather than immediately giving up and moving on is anathema to them.
I wonder if people with that same sentiment go to picketing protestors and yell at them, “Just quit!!”
It’s exactly the same energy. Nothing says “this isn’t my problem so let me tell you how to solve it” like saying “so just quit!”
Their user engagement doesn’t drive their valuation as much as their ability to sway public opinion. Reddit is a media company. They are a broadcast machine.
Tencent didn’t invest in reddit because it’s a good place to advertise their games.
If reddit users hate reddit, then reddit can’t control reddit users as effectively.
Placing pixels is hardly giving reddit anything of value. Logging in to an account. Contributing your time, content (posts/comments), and moderating on the other hand is “helping” them build their system.
Also I am pretty sure bots are ripping r/place up right now, so it’s even more useless. Right now this event is a massive drain on their resources (server/cloud costs). Even as we speak, the instability of reddit is increasing across the site (seeing multiple page errors across the site), and thus decreased actual traffic, and thus decreased advertising revenue.
Would hate to be an SRE for reddit at this point. Servers probably on fire lol
Articles like these lower future Reddit’s valuations. It lost like 60% of its original price, and I’d guess it wasn’t primarily because users protested, but rather thanks to many reputable tech news outlets covering the shit storm.
Would a temporary uptick in users be worth it in the long run? I kinda doubt it.
