The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.
No, I’m sure that’s a “silent majority” of users who support everything that Reddit The Company does banding together to stamp out the minority of noisy rabble-rousers. /s
Sure, the silent majority of spez’s accounts
That’s how it has always been for all places. Admins have the power to erase anything that goes against Reddit’s ToS. Depicting spez under the guillotine is against their ToS, but writing “fuck spez” isn’t, which is why one gets deleted and the other remains.
It makes sense IMO. It’s just like admins having the power to erase swastikas, homophobic or transphobic content, blatant product advertisements and so on. Nothing wrong with it, IMO.
They didnt depict him being decapitated, but his Snoo (i believe those are called Snoos) being decapitated. I think those are two entirely different things, especially given the french revolution theme around it.
Admins are being pussies imo. (After making a very bad decision in returning /r/place) They are of course fully within their right to, and that’s why reddit sucks.
Writing “spez” on the face of the alien was probably a mistake if they didn’t want to get censored.
True, but I don’t think the message comes across the same without it.
I think there’s too much focus on spez and not enough on Reddit. He is making some bad decisions for sure, but in the end the problem with Reddit is much greater than whoever happens to be the CEO.
It’s easy to direct hate towards an individual, but I think it might not be particularly fruitful.
The problem with reddit is, in my opinion, inherent to the way it’s designed. I think that similar to a monarchy, the previous system needs to be forgotten and improved upon. (Not to say that the aftermath of the French Revolution was a great improvement) Whether its spez or anyone else, you cannot make Reddit a healthy platform and go public.
Exactly this ⬆️
I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?
All the pixels came in at the same time
If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It’s clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.
Wasn’t an admin caught doing something similar last time place came around?
Yeah and when I pointed it out I copped 3 day suspension with no message
Idk how many times this has to happen before people stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.
Who else? Seriously… Who else?
Literally anyone with 20 bots.
There is tremendous value in pursuing evidence for the things we believe, rather than spending life totally convinced that our first assumption is always the truth
Don’t participate. It’s a literal trap. Fuck spez by using Lemmy, friends.
I love seeing this, but they hold all the cards… They will censor all of this.
I still am on reddit in order to keep posting “fuck spez” and to help people to switch
I won’t lie to you Lemmings. Everyone who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an admin has been banned.
Are you saying that one day I can evade getting banned?
No, I’m saying one day you won’t have to.
I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny
Yeah, I find protesting Reddit by using Reddit to be incredibly stupid. Just leave and don’t touch it at all, if their user metrics and site traffic are so low, then they’re just gonna lose their advertisers, which is probably one of their main sources of income.
These people cannot control themselves. They’re protesting a company by making them money.
If you have an adblocker and/or other privacy browser plugins how do they make any money from you? If anything, you’ve wasted some bandwidth and server cycles, so you cost them money.
I suppose an argument could be made that by adding to it you’ve created some tiny bit of content someone without adblockers might be enticed to see.
They make them money because:
- they use reddit
- spez gets some nice usage stats to show off
- as a direct consequence, advertisers keep paying to put their ads
- also as a direct consequence, investors’ confidence in reddit continues to recover; there’s a real possibility that, when it IPOs, it will actually go for a decent price
Now, if enough people go commit ad-block, and advertisers somehow become wise to that fact… then maybe it will hurt reddit’s bottom line (at which point spez will start trying to emulate youtube’s anti-ad stuff).
But as it stands, especially if most of reddit’s usage is through reddit’s mobile app… I’m not really sure how you can block ads there.
Those are fair points. Regarding adblock in the official app, you can use ReVanced to patch an .apk similar to how you block ads in YouTube.
Lurker on Reddit, first comment on Lemmy. Let us hope this will become the better alternative 🙏
It already is :-)
always has been
Welcome :) we should all expect some teething problems as lemmy is growing so rapidly. Looking good so far though
Just leave, ffs. It’s annoying that in the end of the day people still remain in droves. The only hope is that reddit drives itself into being unusable.
I turned it into my Lock Screen.
Unfathomably based
Anyone else remember when they had the last CEO institute a ton of egregious shit and then instead of running it back, they replaced her with spez and everyone then forgot about it?
It’s also being griefed using obvious bots. Every 30 seconds or so the entire blade gets blocked out by a perfect checkerboard pattern done all at once. Or a perfect square will get whited out. Either spez is directing it or some reddit fanboy is defending his honor with a bot army
I don’t understand why they’d do another round of place at a time like this. Like wtf did they think would happen?
If you read the r/place guidelines you must use the mobile app to participate. Hence everyone who is jumping in, even to mock spez, are stupidly doing exactly what reddit wants. Adopt their app. This is purely to get people to join their shit app
Can someone please explain to me wtf r/place is? I’m so confused.
It’s a subreddit/event that they do every year (or I think it’s only once a year?) where every user can place a single, colored pixel on a large digital canvas.
Your pixel can be over-written by another user, and each user can only place one pixel every 5 minutes or so (and there’s a lot of bot-use, which is lame)
So different subreddits will band together to try and orchestrate a picture and protect it from being over-written by other users (or bots… if possible)
So alliances between subreddits are formed, fall apart, some backstabbing and deception… all until the event is over and the final canvas is locked-in.
It was actually a pretty cool event. You could maybe join a discord, a pattern and placement would be followed, and you’d just drop a pixel where it needed to be when you could, to help the overall picture. Or go rogue and try and etch a tiny little corner somewhere yourself
I had fun with it last year, but c’est la vie. I ain’t going back there for anything. Would be cool if the different instances could somehow do something of the same nature across the fediverse one day. It was the comradery and light-hearted fun that really made it
I still remember how much fun the 2022 r/Place was. Now it feels kinda sad to watch the current one
Especially since it happened right after they killed apps from the third party
They did this to try and make people happy
we asked for bread and they gave us this circus
We made clown sandwiches
Isn’t this personal harassment and threats? technically this content violates lemmy coc
Even if you think the original content on reddit rises to that level, this is merely reporting on behavior taking place somewhere else; it’s not threatening/harassing spez in and of itself.
Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.
Oh no, if they ban me I’d lose all my precious reddit coins
I don’t know if you saw, but they’re removing this functionality anyway. So all your coins will be absorbed or deleted or whatever after September 31st iirc
I did see that, was trying to make a bad joke :-)
