Spez seeing this
Lots of people saying this is playing right into reddit’s hands, but can someone explain this reasoning to me please? People click on a pixel and reddit profits… how exactly?
Like this isn’t going to bring back their mods or power users, they’ve burned those bridges already and the exodus of lurkers is just a matter of time at this point. I don’t see how making some pixels say “fuck spez” helps them.
You go to the site and see an ad on the way. Reddit profits.
Reddit turns around to their investors during their IPO and say “look at how many people flooded to our site to engage with r/place.” Reddit profits.
People see the chaos and decide to add your two cents to the canvas. The cycle repeats. Reddit profits.
Look how many people engaged only works if you manage to supress the context. Which -given the fact that r/place war already reported about each prior year- is not going to happen.
So you are basically saying people looking for advertising are going for a platform full of fucks, insults and destructive comments/behavior struggling to moderate because they are too stupid to look at anything but numbers of how many people loggend in?
Imagine a c/place? Or does Reddit own a patent for the concept of giant pixel art maps?
I considered ways to do it, but without implementing it in Lemmy code, there is no way to do it…
