r/place is an interactive art project run by reddit on April Fools. It ran in 2017 and 2022. Now they've brought it back for 2023 (it was supposed to have happened on April Fools this year, but various....things....happened). It kicked off again today and as expected, it's gained attention for the bad timing (protests, tone deaf admin, etc..) and people have coordinated to write "fuck spez" messages and other things (at some point, there was a guillotine + reddit's head).
this post was submitted on 20 Jul 2023
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Ahh, I see. They couldn't get their shit together for April, and are pulling this out now as an attempt to placate their users.
Thanks for the clarification. I've been wondering all day how I was on Reddit for years and never saw this. It's because I purposely stayed off the site (and most of the internet for that matter) on April 1st every damn year.
I've been told that it works something like each user is allowed to paint one pixel every two hours or so, so it really is about coordination with other users, and big images require a huge system of users. I've never seen it either, even without trying to avoid it
Cuz they reopened it.
Oh shit! That was one of my favorite things on Reddit. Maybe I should go ba-Wait a minute…
Good boy.
Because a lot of people who “left Reddit” can’t STFU about Reddit.
It's like a fresh break-up. I hate reddit. Reddit is so stupid. I swear I'm totally over reddit. You haven't seen reddit by any chance, have you? I mean, I totally don't care but how is reddit doing?
This is the most accurate description I’ve heard so far. Old habits die hard, and people naturally want to fall back into what they know.
It's basically me. I liked reddit. I do miss it and I do wonder about it but it was toxic to the point that I had to move on. So glad I met Lemmy.
I'm basically a bitter ex. I am curious to see my ex live a shitty life without me but I have moved on and although I wonder what could have been, I'm doing my best not to look back.
With all breakups, I'm sure given time it'll be better but it does give me a certain satisfaction to see my ex in the news, drunk and disorderly and riddled with issues.
r/place was originally an April fool's event, which they did in two different years. The second one upset a lot of people because Reddit admins were caught censoring things.
The fact that they're doing it now is speculated to be an attempt to drive up participation after all the bad press. Many people guessed that doing it now would be a bad move because there is still a lot of anger about the handling of 3PAs, and this place is full of people who feel that way.
As predicted, the current r/place has a lot of anti-Reddit and anti-Spez sentiment, so people here are relishing it. But most don't want to go to Reddit and give them the traffic, so they're upvoting the threads here.
Apparently reddit is too difficult for a lot of people here to give up.
The way I see it, a lot of us are going through the 5 stages of grief. My apologies for us being difficult as a group.
People are obsessed with their ex.
They reopened it, and as predicted, it's not going well for them: https://programming.dev/post/807577
I've never participated in one. How do we know they won't remove the insults and protests from it after it's finished in an image format?
They probably will, and it'll also probably be pretty obvious because people have been taking screenshots. Mods have been caught removing stuff already like the spez guillotine.
It's already been screenshot and reposted in popular news sites so, it's going to be pretty fun to see go.
That’s what had people pissed last time. People started tracking changes and quickly realized Reddit was censoring things.
As others mentioned, r/place has been reopened. Likely as bread and circus + to show that there's engagement in the site.
Frankly I'm watching it with the same morbid curiosity of someone who watches maggots feast upon carrion.