Everyone acts like this is hurting reddit. It doesn't make a fuck what they write on that board, every person who places a dot helps Reddit by being a added number on the user board.
Long term vs short term thinking.
Short term it makes no difference.
But long term it could. People might get annoyed by the lack of content other than protesting and check reddit less. It also keeps the conversation on alternatives like lemmy here.
Also, if reddit believes that the community has genuinely turned against them and will ruin everything on purpose, they might rethink their actions (obviously unlikely).
Sometimes people just like to flip tables out of frustration even if it won't accomplish much. A lot of angry redditors just want to burn it all down and I hope they succeed.
As an extreme example, if /r/place was truly covered with "fuck spez" 100%, would that be an enjoyable thing for people who don't care about what's going on? They'd probably get mad and leave. Which would hurt reddit.
It also costs reddit extra money to deal with all of this.
It's similar to workers protesting instead of just quitting. There's a point to protesting and not everything is solved with a simple boycott.
When digg was dying, many people still used digg, but just to point others to reddit. In hindsight, would you say that it didn't matter since they were still using digg?
This is 100% it. People who think giving additional traffic to reddit hurts reddit are very dumb lol
The only thing we could do is write join Lemmy and hope that more people will join Lemmy.
I don't know. Would you buy Reddit shares when it IPOs if you saw what the users were doing and how they felt?
Honestly... yeah. After seeing how Netflix proved that you can give zero fucks about what your customers say and that they will give you more money after you bend them over, I see no reason why Reddit doubling-down on monetized bullshit on the platform wouldn't be equally successful. These big corps realize that no matter how bad it gets, they will always find paying users as long as you give them their dopamine fix, protests or no protests.
I wouldn’t have regardless of their behaviour now. To me they don’t have any long term value proposition
I mean i saw several articles about the board being covered in "fuck spez" so i'd say it's doing something.
The people who are going to spend money on that place are advertisers, all they want is people going to a site where their ad is and will be seen. A giant swastika in the canvas would bring in way more views than everyone drawing happy little trees and flags of their country. Content means nothing, views are the point and it's working.
They seriously censoring drawings they don't like as if that's gonna stop anyone? What sort of things they been censoring?
Tons of crap like millions of "Fuck spez" all over the place, big ones and small ones, at one point they took up almost a 5th of the visible area. There were multiple statements about never forgetting what was taken from us or joining other social media. There were insults about spez in other languages and a guillotine with a snoo in it labeled Spez
They probably opened r/place as an outlet for anger; some temporary bad reputation now, so that those who are butthurt will shut up.
Also for interaction - number of active users is a very important metric - and with something like this they basically guarantee that a lot of users are checking very regularly - and the investors for the IPO probably will never see that place
Maybe some investors are that lazy, but I doubt it's most. You can Google "reddit" right now and multiple articles come up about what's going on with r/place, that's pretty much the least you can do before investing in a company
They will if they check the news coverage on Reddit as part of their research. (Or, more likely, have their staff do it for them).
They opened it to get more people to adopt their app and new reddit. It's probably working.
Worked great for threads, how much has their engagement dropped since they activated everyone's Instagram account for it? 75%?
They probably opened r/place as an outlet for anger
Rage is a known driver of engagement.
If they think that giving people an outlet for anger on the internet actually causes people to get that anger out of their system… where tf have they been for the past 40 years? That can work in person, but online, the more people rage, the more they want to rage. Giving them an opportunity just pours gasoline on the fire.
Reddit deserves to die by being ignored into oblivion, and fading from relevance.
Spez who?
I wonder if calling their board of directors and investors by name could've reached news.
i drew spez penis and the 4 pixels are still there
Who is this guy again? Funny guy.
