Advertising Lemmy on r/place

I'd be hugely surprised if this isn't full of 'this sub is restricted' 'this sub is NSFW' 'fuck u/spez', John Oliver pics, Lemmy, Kbin, Apollo and all the other 3rd party app logos...

So much iconography to choose from. The admins will be all over it trying to censor it

Why on Earth would they run r/place not only in the middle of July but right in the middle of a massive fight with their user base?

The reason they are bringing back r/place right now is obvious. They are luring people like OP back in so they can say, "Look at how high our engagement is even after the API changes" then push forward their IPO. This post is exactly what Spez wants.

You son of a bitch, I’m in.

I won’t be participating, I vowed to never Grace Reddit when Apollo shut down, but I support the cause.

Let’s change a few “r/...”s to “c/...”s for existing Lemmy communities.

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My input for anyone on board for this is to start with the Lemmy logo. Put it everywhere, subtle and varied like the among us characters had been done before. Then, quickly, put one bold one and focus on getting the word Lemmy next to it. If the moderators don't immediately squash that, go on to the other words you have laid out here.

Alternatively, put the smallest readable size of the word Lemmy.com all over Place.

I mean admins will just delete it like every other time someone they don't like attempts to participate in r/place

I've seen these happen every year but have never actually participated. But this feels like a worthy cause.

If you are thinking of doing this, I am begging you to stop and spend that time contributing to lemmy instead. 10,000 users will be a drop in the bucket for r/place, but 10,000 extra comments or posts could be the difference between the whole site surviving or not.

I created a template! https://lemmy.ml/post/2288443

probably will just be streamers owning the whole thing again

I also think LARPers and Reddit has been demonizing the word decentralized, better stick with just Lemmy.

This seems like a bad idea...

Aside from giving them traffic, which i'm pretty sure is one of the major goals of r/place...

how much are you banking on people actually seeing it, let alone caring about it?

I mean they could even just mod-erase the spot couldn't they?

I'm just saying it's a lot of traffic for them that doesn't seem like it'd actually be of any benefit to anyone but Reddit.

Oh yeah, give them traffic. So smort.

This will open us to an inter site raid. Are we really ready to repel am attack from reddit users /bots?

I'm game. This'll be fun lol

Love this

A lot of people are thinking short term when it comes to Reddits traffic IMO. Sure, temporarily we would boost Reddits traffic but long term would probably hurt them. By this time next year, I'm sure Lemmy would have much higher contributing numbers than now, and next r/place will either A) not happen or B) happen with embarrassingly low participation. We could have c/place here instead.

I agree that helping Reddits traffic by participating doesn't seem like a good idea, but I also don't think that ignoring Reddit will make the *problem go away either. So I support the cause, but as I used to use RIF, I will not be participating, but more luck to you.

*one could argue there is no problem as Reddit is a separate entity to Lemmy. But I, like the rest of the community, support having more people switch here so we have more content. Honestly, I don't care about Reddit as long as Lemmy can provide the content we used to see over there.

Dammit. I will install their app just for this. And also help any fuck spez too. But I am sure they will have bots to avoid that. We need bots to make this work.

The community got deleted. I guess it's dead then?? Sad; I would have really liked that.

Ultimately, this is how we fared with the central banner: Timelapse