It's all engagement for Reddit. They are probably laughing at how gullible people are.
They couldn't make a profit when the engagement was generally happening in good faith. I doubt they'll be able to convert this bad faith engagement into anything of value. It's just a web app where you can change pixels, do they even have ads on there, let alone ones that won't be blocked by all the users using ad blockers?
I mean, it is hard to tell what their goal was in even starting this. The results should have been very predictable. Maybe they were just trying anything they could think of out of desperation, or maybe the whole idea was to get a good idea of what people think of them and if there was a silent majority that didn't care about the third party app drama but would engage sufficiently to drown out the spez hate at least a bit.
But this should have been predictable because even the very first r/place ended up dominated by automation tools, which are used by people looking for a custom experience rather than an official one.
I think the whole "any engagement = profit potential" is the mindset that got Reddit into this mess in the first place. Though maybe more on the angle of "the admins realized they needed to show evidence of that or even realize it for a successful IPO".
What we really need to do is start writing down all the Lemmy instances. It's one thing to tell off reddit, it's another thing to get people off of reddit.
Mod reminder: We do have a rule against brigading. I know this is a special case - but please keep it respectful if you are planning to represent the Fediverse on r/place.
Why have a rule against brigading reddit?
I didn't make the rules. I took over as top moderator yesterday. In general, we don't want you to use this community to plan a brigade in a way that would make the Fediverse look bad. I could reword the rule to include that. It hasn't even been an issue until today. It's the first time I've seen it happening in the comments.
I just don't get why anyone would care if we brigade another website, reddit literally brigaded the fucking stock market...
Thank you for having a respectful conversation with me even though you don't agree with the rules. I will think about rewording that one to be more specific. Today has been very busy for me because of the r/place threads.
As I've explained elsewhere today, I don't mind if you're using this community to plan a brigade at r/place today that says something like "Join Lemmy" but if you're planning to do something like make a large penis and put "Lemmy" next to it I'd rather you plan that somewhere else. Lemmy.world admins do not want us doing something that makes the Fediverse look bad on Reddit, much less planning it on the site.
R/place is only remotely possible through the act of brigading
In my opinion, something like "Join Lemmy" is fine, but a giant penis with LEMMY next to it is not as good a look and I'd rather you not coordinate that plan here.
Understood. I'm just requesting we don't make the Fediverse look bad.
Can't wait for Boost for Lemmy
Proud owner of a pixel that makes up the S at the end.
I guess I'm kind of a big deal
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