Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
Ultimately, this is how we fared with the central banner: Timelapse
Thanks for uploading this, it’s really cool
If I had more time, it could have been even cooler. I would write all the sonification code in Python, which would allow assigning pitches to individual colors. That way, each flag would have its own (likely dissonant) chord, and battles would have an obvious way to tell who is winning, with the void having a low-pitched hum and the whiteout emitting a high-pitched “eek”. However, I did not have nearly enough time for this little project so I just used amplitude modulation of white noise and did not encode any information in the frequency domain. At least the stereo channels have an intuitive mapping to the X-coordinate where changes are happening.
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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?
I’d imagine there are a few reasons, but the TL;DR is… money.
- This year’s April Fools event was terrible. Most people were unable to participate as they didn’t understand it and those that did participate worked on the event in a couple of different Discord servers, not on Reddit itself (because Reddit is terrible for real-time communication). It was also largely unannounced so it was pretty challenging to find and that couldn’t have been good for the site’s revenue - as controversial as r/place is going to be this year, it’s going to bring in a lot of money for the site (and increase the number of active users) because even people that have left Reddit will probably return to put “FUCK SPEZ” on the canvas.
- The API controversy is ongoing and shows no signs of ending currently. I think they’re trying to distract people from the API changes and hope that people think “wow, Reddit is fun, I’ll stick around” after r/place ends instead of becoming less active or leaving the site entirely. r/place will also probably be discussed quite widely for the next few weeks and Reddit probably hopes that this will lead to the API changes being forgotten about (like plenty of other controversies in the site’s history - newer Redditors have no idea about the r/jailbait controversy or u/spez editing comments, for example).
Ultimately, Reddit are going to be collecting data from r/place and using it to encourage investors to invest in Reddit.
I don’t even remember this year’s April thing?
Yes, I never saw anything about it … Then again I hate April fool’s.
To boost the active users numbers
And based on everyone’s excitement to participate seems like their plan is working.
Agreed… Feels like everyone is falling for this hook, line, and sinker.
The goal is to get people back on Reddit, doesn’t matter what you’re doing. For how many people are still on Reddit complaining, it clearly doesn’t matter that much to people.
99.999% of people never left reddit in the first place… this is our chance to get some of those people that either never heard about Lemmy or were discouraged by the complexity of the whole thing the first time around, but might be primed to make the leap now
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
I created a template! https://lemmy.ml/post/2288443
That would have been great. I’m away from the computer, but I kept looking for anything Kbin or Lemmy in the mix.
This is how we fared with the central banner: Timelapse
probably will just be streamers owning the whole thing again
It’s gonna people shilling for a used game store.
I mean admins will just delete it like every other time someone they don’t like attempts to participate in r/place
