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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time
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Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.
What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.
So that's what he's calling it these days
You are missing the point. People will return there to partake. r/place was immensely popular.
Most people expected a 5 year wait. So for most people this becomes a refreshing surprise. And for the duration of the event, many people on Lemmy will return to Reddit. They will partake in organising pixelart and thereby getting pulled back into Reddit communities.
Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis "potential"
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Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham's idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit
Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.
You don't need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.