I really appreciate these posts; this way I don’t need to actually go to Reddit to see what it’s looking like.
Exactly what I was thinking every time I saw one of these.
now there’s a big “FUCK U/SPEZ” sign
Whoever decided to turn the S into a dollar sign is a fuccin artist wwwwww
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I like that the S is a $
oh is it already white pixel time?
yeah, r/place is about to end
Feels too soon bruh
Feels too soon bruh
If you guys really wanted to let Spez know how mad you are you would STOP GOING TO REDDIT… Every time “fuck spez” shows up on this page it just means a bunch of people got on Reddit and boosted their numbers which makes them look more valuable to investors for the IPO.
Do I really need to remind you that Spez or anyone else who works for Reddit COULD TAKE THIS DOWN AT LITERALLY ANYTIME THEY FEEL LIKE IT?
Every time you go there and write “fuck spez” I’m sure he goes to sleep crying into the giant pile of money he sleeps on
I’ll say it once more, if you want Spez to pay DO NOT GO ON REDDIT EVEN TO TELL HIM WHAT A FUCKING ASSHOLE HE IS, THAT IS LITERALLY EXACTLY WHAT HE WANTS YOU TO DO
This doesn’t make alot of sense to me. Doubt all that was created by Lemmy users that logged in to reddit-that’s simply Reddit users? Can’t be good for Reddit that this is going on such a large scale. And if nothing else … Great amusement lol
It only takes a few dedicated people with bots, but it does probably benefit their metrics.
Trying to convert those metrics into revenue is what started this whole thing in the first place. If they were so effective at turning any engagement to their advantage, we’d still all be engaging there via whatever third party app we were using before they got disabled.
Have you tried to actually go to r/place? You can’t even view the page on your phone unless you’re using their garbage official app. It’s definitely meant to try and increase app engagement
Streisand effect. They keep deleting it. More people will help. Similarly, you telling people not to go on reddit, will make people go on reddit.
This is not Streisand effect, because the censoring happens on reddit. Anyone on that platform is already there.
Streisand Effect really only applies if they were making their own submissions about it. Replying to this one doesn’t really make the cut IMO!
I need to test that theory for science. Do NOT send me $20.
See I think you have it twisted. We need a good mix of both.
If site traffic plummets thats bad for Spez, if place is a giant “fuck spez” banner and it gets reported on by tech news and legitimate financial news its also bad for spez.
If investors look at the blackout and the desperate scrambling for volunteers to mod subs, and a traffic decline AND the fact that the administration cant seem to do anything about some members turning place into a monkey shit fight at the zoo… Some of them might just realise that Reddit is a very risky investment.
I still say if this wasn’t exactly what the corporate management of Reddit wanted, then it would have been taken down by now though.
Why else would it exist? They’ve already proven that they won’t hesitate to censor/destroy anything that’s not in line with their plans for the IPO, so it doesn’t make sense that this one thing would be beyond their control in any way whatsoever.
At this point it is big enough to gather the interest of the media whether it stays up or gets wiped, and investors watch the media like hawks.
Sorry, lad… folks really love the circlejerk and can’t/won’t stop doing it until it dies down. It’s kind of like “talking to a wall” at this rate.
I like how u/spez ist ein hurensöhn was still there last time I check
Spez is a Whoreson? I know literally 0 German but I’m confident that’s what that says
The phrase “Sprich deutsch, du Hurensohn” (“Speak german, you son of a whore”) has evolved from an insult to somewhat of an insider meme in german subreddits. It was an answer to english comments flooding german subreddits and making communication difficult.
And now we basically can call anyone a Hurensohn and it now counts as transformative art lol
I feel dumb because I stopped going on reddit a month ago so I have no idea how the dumpster fires smoldering…
I mean as the image obviously suggests, the community hasn’t forgotten all the previous actions of reddit (on command of u/spez)
they should change it to fuck reddit because when spez gets fired, they will think the battle is won, which will lose them the battle
At this late stage, I think everyone ends up losing this one no matter what happens
Absolutely glorious, I’m actually proud of those poor sad bastards
Spez is and will always be a hurensohn.
Will lemmy ever get it’s own /place?
Very very unlikely. Considering the underlying point of Lemmy is that it is decentralized, the devs would have to add something similar and possibly every instance would have it’s own place.
Probably not, but there are already open source projects that allow people to host their r/place lookalikes. Some lemmy instance admin could some day decide to host one of those, but it wouldn’t be part of lemmyNet’s code.
Probably not but it would be cool. Thought I’d rather like something else instead of lemmy trying to copy that from reddit 1:1
For now, There’s rplace.live
I hope so. And I hope Spez doesn’t have an account for that matter many accounts.
Probably not but it would be cool. Thought I’d rather like something else instead of lemmy trying to copy that from reddit 1:1
For now, There’s rplace.live
Just found this for viewing place without Reddit:
The “Fuck Spez” is much smaller when you view the whole thing :(
still one of the biggest pieces though
holy crap they really added a description for everything
Yea this is pretty cool. I can finally identify stuff I’ve seen on there before but could never figure it out.
Is there a way to disable the outlines?
How tf does that work? That’s incredible.
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Regardless of whether you’re Mexican, Italian, German, Indian, Costa Rican, French, Venezulean, LGBTQ, a brony or whatever other flags are here, we can all agree on one thing
Fuck Spez
It has become a competition for who has the biggest bonnet
On a side note, I’m pleased to see that the void demon is looking beautiful as ever. Easily the best actually original idea/artwork to have come out of there.
Is that what’s in the top right?
No. The thing below the p in “Spez”.
I think im going to cry. It’s glorious.
Sadly gone now. Admins won’t let this stand. Although the time lapses are hilarious.
All the time and energy they’re spending moderating this, could have been time better spent improving literally anything. Usability, moderation tools, mobile app.
