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.
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
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.
Random pixels? At this time of Reddit? In this part of r/place? Localized entirely on spez’s head?
Am I the only one who thinks place is lame? It’s just another Reddit circle jerk and everyone is falling for it hook line and sinker. Shit like this reminds me why the human population is mentally deficient and why politicians have such an easy time controlling us.
Still engagement.
I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny
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
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.
Apparently it’s app only, which can’t easily be adblocked
I’m pretty sure there’s revanced patches for that?
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.
This is also why I don’t mind the John Oliver stuff. It’s interesting for now, but it will get boring. I just hope it doesn’t get stupid like what happened on r/aww
I’m a bit out of the loop, what happened on r/aww?
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
