• Botree@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    I don’t understand why they’d do another round of place at a time like this. Like wtf did they think would happen?

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      If you read the r/place guidelines you must use the mobile app to participate. Hence everyone who is jumping in, even to mock spez, are stupidly doing exactly what reddit wants. Adopt their app. This is purely to get people to join their shit app

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        1 year ago

        Precisely.

        They don’t care what the users make. They care that user interaction numbers are back up.

        Spez is the scapegoat. The ownership of Reddit knows what they’re doing and spez is simply the idiot willing to (poorly) do what he’s told.

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        1 year ago

        It’s a tiny fraction, damn near a rounding error, of people involved compared to Reddit user base though.

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      They do everything to up the engagement by any means necessary, so they can say that there were no big impact on traffic after blackouts. And it works. It doesn’t matter that people go there out of hatred, they still end up as traffic