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

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

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.

That's some bullshit right there. Thanks for capturing it.

Quebec still representing on Reddit is ironic and embarrassing.

Again, this is why the correct protest should have been to make everything Black or White.

I didn't know you could up/downvote on imgur. I wonder where all the downvotes came from...

It was expected

If this was being done over lemmy with lemmy.word admin name in it, would it be censored?

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.

You have to use the mobile app too. This is purely a stunt to get app adoption.

It's why I signed up. I've been looking for an alternative. This is great so far.

or make a 'join lemmy' sign?

I won’t lie to you Lemmings. Everyone who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an admin has been banned.

Thankfully they are making it super easy for me to resist placing pixels this year. Doesn't work on old.reddit, only works on new reddit or their official mobile app. No way in hell I'm downloading that piece of crap app and I don't feel like swapping back and forth between old and new site designs.

I still am on reddit in order to keep posting "fuck spez" and to help people to switch

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.

The people you want to get off reddit are (shock) on reddit. While it makes reddit money in the short term, it spreads the word to people that aren't aware. Short term gain for hopefully long term loss.

Does some individuals love circlejerking so much they'd GIVE AWAY money for it? Why yes they would.

"It's not about the money. It's about sending a message."

Unfathomably based

Looks pretty good actually

That's the moderators of place doing that.

I'm never going back to that place

Of course they did. It was a death threats against an individual. The protestors needs to drop spez as a scapegoat and pick a target that is smarter.

I mean, fuck that place, but this particular instance of censorship seems acceptable and even good. Some schizo dude on the interweebs could think this is God speaking to him or something. Don't promote violence online.

It already is :-)

Welcome :) we should all expect some teething problems as lemmy is growing so rapidly. Looking good so far though

is a good day for it

Discussions are generally civil and engaging. Content is obviously going to be sparse for a bit but find the communities of your interest and start posting!

Pro tip: !memes@sopuli.xyz is a meme community that is significantly less Communist

Especially since it happened right after they killed apps from the third party

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

Probably to drive user interaction back up.

They do everything to up the engagement by any means necessary, so they can say that there were no big impact on traffic after blackouts. And it works. It doesn't matter that people go there out of hatred, they still end up as traffic

I've gotten a few people to switch

maybe it's not so bad, many of the reddit issues were caused by it's rotting culture of ragebait loving and bandwagoning, as much as the lemmyverse benefit from trafic, going back to news influenced hate trains and obviously ill white women screaming at a camera on all pages is far from desirable, imhu of course

I feel like saying "Just leave" to the protesters is akin to telling people protesting Trump as president: "Just leave for Canada. You working and living in USA is just making more tax money for Trump."

The only hope for what? Is the end goal that Reddit dies or that lemmy gains in popularity?

It's because they don't know any better. The average redditor isn't exactly super smart, and half of them are even stupider than that!

Oh no, if they ban me I'd lose all my precious reddit coins

Just waiting for my ban for placing a pixel there, tbh.

Can't engage with the site if they block me from engaging with it.

asking the real questions

There are websites that do what place does but better. Maybe we should just partner with one and have our own.

With obligatory blackjack and hookers.

By hilarious, I'm sure you meant "highly edited".

I'd be shocked if they followed through with it. Reviving r/place out of the blue is a naked grab at engagement numbers.

Ellen Pao, yup. F her and f spez

And guillotine-pilled

based

Tubular.

If I'm being honest, it's no where near as bad as Twitter. But still a dumpster fire

The only reason twitter is worse is because elon got there first. You can just reorder the timeline. They're both heading the same way

I finally kinda see it, but hate the tone it was said with "heres a game to keep you distracted"

You are the one posting here, dude.

But still, I think that spez should find out to not fuck around with the french while they are protesting

I'm sure it would have been if phones existed, people haven't changed

Nah. It should be spez. It’s a metaphor for what’s coming and it’s going to be the billionaires of the world that are going to experience it.

Twitter even censored news about french protest too.

r/place is a site wide event where any user can place a pixel on the big canvas every 5 minutes or so. Communities will often coordinate efforts so their users can make art to represent their community. It looks like a lot of people have come together to make this Spez guillotine, which is fun.

Basically you get one turn to place one pixel. By working together people and communities can make pictures and memes.

The Void is a bunch that just use black to consume everything.

After a little bit you can take another turn. So on and so forth.

In the past there were almost literal tile wars as communities fought for specific coordinates to color for whatever flag, void, meme or inside joke of the year.

They want the engagement numbers. They're hoping those angry people log back in.

Rudy Giuliani, that you?

Yeah but the borgousise ones were the ones that made it onto all the MySpace pages.

There are also mods and admins by passing the timers and abusing to place more pixels again

Open the website and change the browser to "desktop view"

I think it's part of the "landed gentry" theme Spez started.

When they piss us off enough.

On reddit you go to /r/place and can place a pixel on a certain place on this huge canvas of like... idk 5000 * 5000 pixels wide? Its a huge canvas of pixels. So you and your friend or another subreddit can try team up and conquer part of the canvas, lets say the bottom right corner. And then you can all work together and create a little flag or another picture/image like this one. I am not sure on the limit of how many pixels each user can post per minute, or the exact number of pixels, but its roughly something like 5000-10000 pixels wide and high

EDIT: This image you see would be a tiny portion of the entire canvas. You can tell because the resolution of 'Spez' for example is pretty bad, which means its only a few pixels wide. If it was taking up the entire canvas it would be perfect resolution and you wouldnt see janky edges

This is an example of the entire canvas at some point over the past few days. Its probably actually something like 50000x50000 pixels

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

LOL. You made me chuckle.

Same, used to love it last time. But this time I won't participate.

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This is surprisingly sick funk for the end of my day.

...really?

I gave you a meaningless upvote because I don't think you're wrong and you've got a completely reasonable take

Just saying for me, yeah I guess if I think too into it, it does rub me the wrong way but I see a couple degrees of separation between the art and the person. It was the snoo head with just the word spez with a big red card behind it

I feel like if it was written on the forehead for example that would have definitely make me question their decision a lot more

(And in regards to the other comments of yours in this thread, I get how that could put you at unease.. there's some interesting things developing in America)

I’m also not big on Spez but I do agree with you.

Personally, I think all the heads of social media networks could use some reflection time in one of these just for a start.

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.

You're on thelemmy.club commenting on a thread hosted on lemmy.world started by a user on kbin.social. Which instance's terms do you specifically believe are being violated here?