Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.
Because the Reddit hive mind will most likely use it as a form of protest against spez. I also agree that it’s the best time, going to go get me my popcorn and enjoy the art
I think that’s their plan - everyone will be on reddit bashing F5 and trying to build protest banners and stuff, and admins will be sitting there writing over everything. They’ll get huge traffic and it won’t be a dumpster fire
And people will take pride in how “hard” they fought against the staff who literally just use the equivalent of ms paint to erase any particularly nasty “protests”
Also, tinfoil hat, this seems like a really good approach. Much like Pao before him, Huffman is everything that is wrong with the company. So whoever buys reddit will install their own CEO, the entire world will cheer, and people will go back and be happy.
There’s a great Lenin quote about it: “The Capitalists will sell us the rope with which we will hang them.” If your goal is profit you will do anything for it, including letting the customers publicly shame you or your company.
That said, I imagine Spez being petty enough interfere with the protest.