2y ago

Reddit protests see r/Place experiment immediately hijacked with grotesque graffiti

www.independent.co.uk

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2y ago

Reddit protests see r/Place experiment immediately hijacked with grotesque graffiti

www.independent.co.uk /tech/reddit-place-protest-spez-b2379039.html

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r/place is only available on our mobile apps (iOS and Android) and new Reddit. The new r/place features we are introducing this year are only on our mobile apps and moderators can opt out of these if they want to.
This seems kind of desperate.
- Especially considering, as far as I can tell there seems to not be any new features.
  In fact, they're limiting colour options now and the canvas is smaller.
  
  In fact, they’re limiting colour options now and the canvas is smaller.
  You only need black and white in a small space to spell out "fuck spez".
  
  not sure if it did this last year but when i opened the canvas it started causing firefox to eat up a ton of ram, this is how it was after leaving the canvas open for 15 minutes
  
  Last year the canvas got bigger and there were more color options over time.
  
  Mods can now designate a spot.
- App analytics go brrrr
"protesters"... I'm sure Spez is sadly walking to the bank to cash all of his checks from all the money he made on r/place from the "protesters."
Aw, I hate to admit it but I feel sad to be missing place. I liked it
- I said yesterday in another thread that this was going to be a shit show because of Huffman...I loved last year's r/space. I can say I miss it, but I gave up that community for what I believe to be a better one. They can have it, we can build better communities in Fediverse
- Place was good once, but you're not missing anything now. Trying to recapture that magic just feels like Reddit is out of ideas and just desperately trying to remind people of the one good thing they ever did. It's like Al Bundy still hyping up his high school football career because the rest of his life has been downhill since then.
  
  Reminds me of YouTube rewind.
- We should make a Lemmy Tundra
  
  Lemmy Tundra
  Good call! That way we can draw either blue or white mana for anti-reddit counterspells and protection. Control decks were always my favorite.
- There's sites that do it. Heck we could probably do it just by spamming a link.
Surprised Pikachu!
Grotesque? Maybe I missed seeing something else, but "Fuck Spez," isnt grotesque.
Nor can you really call using the canvas as intended "graffiti."
- Aye they show that, and also the current one both in the article.
- That was the first place IIRC. I am fairly sure we in the nordic countries made the viking ship on top of the Union Jack in the first place.
They are still getting publicity and engagement so it’s working for them.

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