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      No, I’m sure that’s a “silent majority” of users who support everything that Reddit The Company does banding together to stamp out the minority of noisy rabble-rousers. /s

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      I actually saw that happen in real time, did we confirm it was an admin action?

      All the pixels came in at the same time

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        If you spend time watching /r/place you see that pictures mostly form in a natural, progressive way. This is the only place you see hundreds of pixels being changed uniformly all at once. Even bots would be making more gradual changes than this. It’s clearly someone who has a brush tool for censoring.

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        It’s the Admins, the new pixels don’t have any usernames attached to them.

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        Random pixels? At this time of Reddit? In this part of r/place? Localized entirely on spez’s head?

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      That’s how it has always been for all places. Admins have the power to erase anything that goes against Reddit’s ToS. Depicting spez under the guillotine is against their ToS, but writing “fuck spez” isn’t, which is why one gets deleted and the other remains.

      It makes sense IMO. It’s just like admins having the power to erase swastikas, homophobic or transphobic content, blatant product advertisements and so on. Nothing wrong with it, IMO.

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        They didnt depict him being decapitated, but his Snoo (i believe those are called Snoos) being decapitated. I think those are two entirely different things, especially given the french revolution theme around it.

        Admins are being pussies imo. (After making a very bad decision in returning /r/place) They are of course fully within their right to, and thats why reddit sucks.

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          Writing “spez” on the face of the alien was probably a mistake if they didn’t want to get censored.

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              I think there’s too much focus on spez and not enough on Reddit. He is making some bad decisions for sure, but in the end the problem with Reddit is much greater than whoever happens to be the CEO.

              It’s easy to direct hate towards an individual, but I think it might not be particularly fruitful.

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                The problem with reddit is, in my opinion, inherent to the way it’s designed. I think that similar to a monarchy, the previous system needs to be forgotten and improved upon. (Not to say that the aftermath of the French Revolution was a great improvement) Whether its spez or anyone else, you cannot make Reddit a healthy platform and go public.

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    I refuse to help Reddit artificially juice their active users metrics by signing back in to contribute, but this is pretty funny

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      Yeah, I find protesting Reddit by using Reddit to be incredibly stupid. Just leave and don’t touch it at all, if their user metrics and site traffic are so low, then they’re just gonna lose their advertisers, which is probably one of their main sources of income.

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        Honorable mention to the people giving shooting star awards (you know, the EXPENSIVE one) to all of the comments on /r/place. Sure did show them there didn’t you!

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          Some people were premium subscribers for years. They probably just used their accumulated coins since they’re being taken away soon.

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    Don’t participate. It’s a literal trap. Fuck spez by using Lemmy, friends.

    I love seeing this, but they hold all the cards… They will censor all of this.

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      If you have an adblocker and/or other privacy browser plugins how do they make any money from you? If anything, you’ve wasted some bandwidth and server cycles, so you cost them money.

      I suppose an argument could be made that by adding to it you’ve created some tiny bit of content someone without adblockers might be enticed to see.

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      I mean, fuck that place, but this particular instance of censorship seems acceptable and even good. Some schizo dude on the interweebs could think this is God speaking to him or something. Don’t promote violence online.

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        No. Stop. Don’t.

        I hear you, but all these rich rat bastards need to be reminded that they only have what they have because the masses allow it. I hope I don’t see it in my lifetime, but we are rapidly approaching a point where heads are going to roll.

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          I do believe heads need to roll at this point, but not specifically Spez. Like what he’s doing is minimal and not deserving of death or incitement of violence against him.

          The same people who drew that probably use Reddit every day. If you really want to make a point don’t do shit like that, just stop using Reddit.

          Look at the masses of Germans coordinated to say “fuck Spez”… What percentage of them do you think still use Reddit?

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            I’m a german and made an account with a throaway email so i could help the german artworks because i really like the community around the german r/place engagement. I’m not planning on using that account after place is done so I also used a randomly generated password which i didn’t save. I just want the fun and community of last years e/place again.

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              I actually went back to Reddit. Even as a left-wing follower, I couldn’t take the heavy bias of the community. The echo chamber is just too loud. They are convinced communism is flawless, and whenever it becomes flawed, it is the right’s fault. I can’t deal with absolutes, I’d rather be dead than radicalized by an ideology.

              For some reason Lemmy won’t let me remove my account so I just login once a day to see if it is already gone.

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    I still remember how much fun the 2022 r/Place was. Now it feels kinda sad to watch the current one

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    Isn’t this personal harassment and threats? technically this content violates lemmy coc

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      Even if you think the original content on reddit rises to that level, this is merely reporting on behavior taking place somewhere else; it’s not threatening/harassing spez in and of itself.

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    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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    Reddit is using it as a honeypot to attract the upset users, so that they can swing the banhammer.

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        I don’t know if you saw, but they’re removing this functionality anyway. So all your coins will be absorbed or deleted or whatever after September 31st iirc