All this hate towards u/spez only gives reddit engagement. The only way to real success is by making users move to Lemmy.

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      I’d like this place to survive, but, man, it has big Mad Men “I feel sorry for you/I don’t think about you at all” vibes.

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        I had a buddy send me a link to a Reddit post the other day. Other than the couple of technical questions I’ve sourced there through Google, I haven’t given that place a single click. I’m sure there are great things still there, but Reddit is almost completely out of my life. Lemmy has some growing to do still, but I’m here for the ride.

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        That’s just the people who miss reddit and want to recreate it.

        Plenty of us are moving on and want to do things differently here though.

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      Plus they have some code that allows them to interfere with the picture. The part that drawn spez under a guillotine received a checkerboard and also constantly had random pixels showing up.

      Anyone who thinks they are protesting by it are fooling themselves.

      Also if somebody was truly worrying reddit they likely removed their account. Asking to contributing is asking to create account back on the site we wanted to leave.

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      I agree with you in principle, but speaking from strictly a strategic perspective, /r/place presents a vulnerability that can be exploited without contributing what Reddit really needs to regain its status - content.

      In the context of a social media war, this means we can use the space to peel off users who wouldn’t have been introduced to the Fediverse otherwise, with no risk of harming ourselves or providing Reddit more than a temporary moment of attention. There’s been a concerted effort to remove links to Fediverse resources in many subs, and for a great deal of redditors, they’re in the dark about what the Fediverse represents and how much better it is than Reddit.

      Plus it’s just cool to fuck with Spez, and the Fediverse is so cool in general that I’d love to see what the effect would be if we united against a common enemy.

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        Place gives Reddit exactly what it needs most - user engagement. By going, you’re feeding Reddit stats they can show prospective investors and advertisers on unique users, time on site, and clicks even after the protests.

        Reddit was very crafty in relaunching Place right now. They can show a material post-API uptick exactly as Spez promised.

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          You really think 1000 (being very very generous here) people from lemmy going to r/Place to advertise is going to give a boost to Reddit’s user engagement? On the other hand 1000 people coming from Reddit to lemmy will be like a 1% boost to Lemmy.

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            No, I’m not saying Lemmy users checking in represent any material change to Reddit numbers. I’m saying Place gets Reddit a short term boost to demonstrate the site still has pull. And that is what Reddit cares about far more than good content - eyeballs to sell ads to, and comments to sell to LLM companies.