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Place is going exactly as expected (lemmy.world)
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[-] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

By opening up r/place again, they've stolen the magic from it.

The first time it happened, it was amazing and novel.

The second time was an incredible surprise each time the board opened up again. I was involved with the r/Beach House community to put up an homage to our favorite band.

But now... It's become repetitive. It feels like just an attention grab, like a ploy to artificially increase traffic to the site. This time, it looks no different from every other time r/place has taken... place. It's flags everywhere, there's so much anger surrounding it, and it's just not fun.

r/place was special because of its spontaneity. But now it's soulless, like every other corporate-owned internet phenomenon is.

Fuck Steve Huffman.

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Everything from these big corps have no soul. Because we know it's just about exploiting users for money.

I want the old internet back so bad. Hopefully federation can fuel many new actually fun services that are not built to make money but to actually entertain and amuse people, or simply be useful.

I personally feel pleasure from doing good things in the world. But it seems to be a group of people who doesn't feel it's worth doing something for others unless there is money to be made from it.

[-] soulifix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I feel bad for every user that hasn't experienced an internet before all of this. Golden years to me, was 1996 ~ 2008. To others, far earlier.

The only thing we had to deal with then, was just popups. Now, it's like every fucking thing imaginable has to be turned into some subscription or retooled to be shareholder friendly. Because that's exactly what everything is gearing towards to appease - these fucking shareholders with stakes. Shareholders, who constitute a band of people who have absolutely no knowledge or fucks given as to what made things as good as they were in past internet. It's all about data farming for money to then market people to shit.

Google had to go and acquire YouTube, things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, fucking bombardment of ads if you aren't using an adblocker. Amazon had to go and acquire Twitch and things seemed okay in the beginning. Now look at it, you're meaning to tell me I have to sit through 8 ads, while you minimize a stream of a channel I'm watching?! AND You're going to make YOUR OWN SUBSCRIPTION WHEN AMAZON PRIME ISN'T ENOUGH?! ARE YOU FUCKING INSANE?!

Reddit was great until 2016, it broke itself over politics. Then it broke itself even further by 2020 and now we are where we are with it. Social Media, is running in place. It's about statistics anymore. Has Facebook ever been useful and functional? I'm having a hard time now remembering when the last time it even had real people helping you, because now it's just in some stupid half-ass wiki that doesn't even have all of the answers in it's own ecosystem.

Everyone is too politicized now, almost can't go a damn few comments anymore without someone coming up to you with an emotionally charged reply, that's hiding in the background, the basis of their political stance.

FUCK WEB 3.0 AND ALL THAT IT HAS WROUGHT!

[-] mrmanager@lemmy.today 1 points 1 year ago

I agree and this internet we have now has turned into crap, and it's the corporations who is responsible for it, because they want their profits.

Every big tech service is always nice at first and then the horrific ads and user tracking starts. People use an ad company to search the internet now and that's completely normal appearently. :)

[-] Philolurker@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I agree in general, but search feels like an odd example. That space has been dominated by ad companies since even before the internet (e.g., Yellow Pages).

[-] soulifix@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's now a symbol of how deteriorated Reddit has become. I mean, yeah, you've summarized it perfectly. r/place is now the symbolism of everything wrong with Reddit. It's repetitious, as much as all of the karma farming posts on Reddit have been for years. All the other places had contained a culture snapshot of everything that Reddit brought together.

All that this version of Place has brought, is all of the anguish towards one person and their poor decision making.

[-] Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I might could live with repetitive if it wasn't for the anger. I've got a 2'x2' print of 2022's canvas sitting next to my desk, and I still get lost in it every now and then. Just another trip exploring a new canvas could be fun.

But then I open the page and 15% of it is just "fuck spez" and everyone is angry. Rightfully so, but... I just don't feel it anymore.

[-] antonim@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ehh, flags dominated since the very first r/place.

But yes it's pretty obvious each new edition is ever more astroturfed. The second one had lots of obvious organised bots designing perfect shapes and logos, and moderators' meddling was noticed as well.

[-] thal3s@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Our French compatriots are giving Spez the guillotine!

Our French compatriots are giving Spez the guillotine

[-] MelonTheMan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

lmao I didn't know what was happening in this one for a moment

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[-] devilstrip@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You missed the best part, in the German Flag, they've written "u/spez ist ein Hurensohn!"

Translation: u/spez is a son of a whore/bitch (Google says bitch, commenters are saying whore.)

[-] grysbok@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Welp, that's my vocabulary lesson for the day. Screenshot:

Also, the dino in the upper right is cute.

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[-] holupwaitaminute@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

It's basically bots vs admins now. Most pixels are places by new accounts or by entities without accounts at all.

The highlight this year is going to be that animation by the Osu! I think.

[-] ober9000@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

The Among Us characters are also back, but they are all FUCK SPEZ. 😆

[-] alizard@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

every time they do r/place it feels a little less special

[-] Magiwarriorx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I think it felt fine in 2022, the five year gap was long enough. But this year... it just feels hollow to me. Can't tell if that's from repetition or just me being burnt out on Reddit, or both.

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[-] Siegfried@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

So, at the end, it worked?... shame

Reddit does not need love, people enjoying it or whatever, they need traffic. Advertisers dont care if you are there just to express how awfull reddit is, they need views. I would have love to see this shit staying blank.

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[-] Zstom6IP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

you can see the eness stream of black dots harassing the LGBT flag.

[-] repeatedly_once@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I'm glad I finally found someone referencing this. It made me so sad to see. I really feel like this wave of anti LGBTQ+ sentiment is spreading and all from a fucking pointless culture war started by absolute morons.

[-] Zstom6IP@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

yeah.

[-] Tobin@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

[-] GoodKingElliot@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago

They are coordinating the r/Save3rdPartyApps banner in this discord. https://discord.gg/nxZbjurQTQ

[-] 4815162342@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] Wraith25@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I don’t understand why r/place is back, 2017 and 22 were very popular. I can only imagine they trying to drive traffic after the exodus. Anybody have insight?

[-] toasteranimation@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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[-] willeypete23@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

The fuck spez is perfect. Also I can't even view r/place because you have to either use their app or go to new reddit.

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