‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.

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    1 year ago

    The point of opening it this early again was to garner traffic. Don’t go there at all. It would have been best if only mods and corpo shills were placing pixels.

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      This 100%. Engagement to show your protest is still engagement. Give Reddit your absence.

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        I wish I did this. I went to check if there were any signs of the protest and couldn’t help but contribute to one of the “fuck spez” signs

        I then realized that place already felt kind of overdone last time they did it, this time it just feels completely meaningless

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          Place is cool when its people just working together to draw things. What is not cool is the corpo bots instantaneously placing their logo and people fucking with the art outside of the given rules to users. That ruins it completely.

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        As much as I’ve been enjoying Lemmy and really like it as a platform, I don’t think any of this this is fine because there are just too many niche communities that are either unwilling or unable to just pick up and move, which means that in practice to the extent that I only participate here and not on Reddit I am missing out on a lot of content that I used to look forward to.

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          I actually find it kind of freeing. With Reddit I kept scrolling in hopes of finding something interesting through one of those niche communities, with Lenny I find myself doomscrolling a lot less

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            I get it, and that is a totally valid experience that you and probably many other people have had, but I personally never considered myself to be doomscrolling when seeing what was new with the Haskell programming language, going through what crazy experience people have had playing Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup lately, learning from the the really insightful in-depth explanations of history that were posted to AskHistorians, and so on. I do not consider the subtraction of these things from my life to have ultimately been a benefit, it just makes me feel less in the loop about the things that I care about.

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              I’ve seen some people talking about how the lemmy developers are planning for the ability to “group” communities (of the same name or something like that) on different instances together.
              I’m taking this as those communities then forming one community that doesn’t have to rely on a single instance’s community to “survive”.
              Haven’t put too much thought into this but I think that would at least lessen that problem, especially for new niche subjects popping up. The difficulty for existing niche communities starting anew here will probably remain but I’m hopeful for the future.

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            Me too, I’ll engage for around 15-30 minutes then go and do some writing rather than spend 4 hours doom scrolling.

            I’ve legit got so much work done it staggers the mind.

            I stopped using Reddit completely on July first, and in that time I’ve got a reflective log completed and submitted, a report on disruptive fintech completed a week early and submitted and now a mini dissertation completed 2 weeks early.

            It’s almost as if spending my time doing coursework is better than freaking out trying to finish it and submit to turnitin 30 seconds before the deadline while praying the connection doesn’t fail.

            Anyway…

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              We all use social media in different ways. For me, I use it primarily as a relatively mindless activity I can engage in when my brain is too tired to do something that I actually care about. For example, at work I often write comments when I am stuck or feeling burned out, and taking the time to rest in this way helps my brain recover and often after a while the solution to my problem pops into my head and I can proceed.

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          This was actually how the internet was before Reddit as well.

          People move and adapt. Reddit wasn’t always the shining beacon of communities you think it currently is.

          Activity Pub is a clear improvement over Reddit, and separating from Spez’s incompetence is a bonus.

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            Reddit wasn’t always the shining beacon of communities you think it currently is.

            You are putting words into my mouth that I did not speak nor do I think; I have only pointed out that there are communities on Reddit that do not have a strong presence here whose absence I miss.

            People move and adapt.

            While I hope you are correct in this case, this is not always true. Sometimes good things are simply lost.

            Activity Pub is a clear improvement over Reddit, and separating from Spez’s incompetence is a bonus.

            I agree, which is why I have shifted the vast majority of the time I spent on Reddit here instead.


            Edit: Ah, lovely, a downvote without a reply. Glad to see that the Lemmy community is such a dramatic improvement over the Reddit community. :-)

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            Some people want it all and they want it now. No patience to help build a better tomorrow when there’s a shitty today they can have.

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              That is true of most people. Those aren’t the ones that matterfor building something new and will migrate eventually. It’s always been a minority of users who do the heavy lifting of establishing thriving communities and those peoplez by definition, are the ones who are willing to roll their sleeves up and do that work on a new platform when the old one stops working for them.

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      If you want to take a peek without sending traffic to them then there is a YouTube livestream of r/place.