Reddit's collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit's CEO.

‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    I think insulting is the wrong way. It’s just a level that I am disappointed to see people lower themselves to.

    • MaharashtraEnglish
      6•1 year ago

      Same here.

      From where I sit, these people should simply abandon Reddit, rather than fuel its popularity.

      • @[email protected]English
        5•1 year ago

        While I also like to watch a slowmo trainwreck from a distance, we should be focusing on building our new home. The foundations are already here, but everything else is still absent.

        • MaharashtraEnglish
          2•1 year ago

          Aye.

          Developing new approach and mindset to data sharing and online culture would be great. Unfortunately, plenty of people insist on making this place Reddit, with all its wrong aspects… 😑

    • @[email protected]English
      3•1 year ago

      I see it as pointless and potential risks tarnishing the image that third party apps helped improve reddit (especially to normies/non techies who only use the official app and website).

      What I don’t get is what will damaging the ipo achieve now that a lot of 3rd party apps are toast (Apollo, rif, reddit sync). Even if spez or reddit as a whole did a full 180 nothing would change on the prospect of 3rdparty apps.

      Only thing reddit can change is improving the first party app and mod tools (given their stance was the api was never meant for 3rdparty apps after flip flopping).

      As a user you have more or less 5 options:

      1. completely switch to Lemmy (or similar alternative).

      2. use the official reddit app and deal with it

      3. use social media less (pull the plug overall per say)

      4. Use a paid subscription 3rd party app (example infinity for reddit

      5. use a modded version of 3rdparty apps with custom api or the official reddit app modded (ex vanced)

      I hope this comment doesn’t come of too corporate or shill like

      • @[email protected]English
        8•1 year ago

        I’m speculating, but at this point I don’t think the remaining Reddit protesters are doing this with the goal of having Spez reverse course. My guess is that they know its a lost cause, and are just operating out of spite, i.e. you destroyed something I care about (reddit) so I’m going to destroy something you care about (willingness of advertisers to participate in a hostile platform).

        From a practical perspective I totally agree though. Frankly, this whole debacle has made me realize that I stopped actually enjoying Reddit in like 2017 - there was just nothing good to move to before the explosion of Lemmy this year.

        • @[email protected]English
          0•1 year ago

          Yes Reddit was in the advantageous position of being “it”. People promoting spez hate must realize they’re never going to get Reddit back. They’re just doing it out of spite for losing something. The best protest is to just move on and forget about them.