Edit: we’ve made it! Timelapse

Template: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/jlemmybig.json
To use the template, install the r/place userscript (guide) and click the above link. If you already have the userscript, just add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ChaoticNeutralCzech/myRandomImages/main/jlemmybig.json into the “Always Load” list.

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Also, please no “tHiS iS eNgAgEmEnT fOr rEdDiT” comments. Would you rather have no such banner? As I’m not pushing anyone to become a long-term active user on Reddit, I don’t see any benefit for the company from this. If you have a spare account, this may be a good cause to fire it up for a few hours.

  • transientDCer@lemmy.worldEnglish
    127·
    1 year ago

    For anyone concerned about traffic to reddit, the absolute best thing you can do is find ads next to “offensive” content and e-mail the CEOs and marketing departments of those companies saying you won’t use those products due to their ad placement on reddit. Literally nothing else will hurt them faster.

      • morrowind@lemmy.mlEnglish
        92·
        1 year ago

        If you use an ad blocker and don’t buy premium then reddit doesn’t benefit from you outside of any content you post

        • TheGreenGolem@lemm.eeEnglish
          17·
          1 year ago

          You increase the daily/monthly active users count if they count only visiting people as well. Only by 1, but still. If they are using that number in any kind of negotiation with other companies to persuade them to do business with them (ad-related or otherwise), you probably wouldn’t want to increase that number.
          Not much, but it’s honest work.

          Edit: I’m not talking about this message in r/place in particular. I think this is awesome!

  • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.eeEnglish
    1176·
    1 year ago

    Wow, we were allowed a few pixels for a few minutes, granted by our corporate overlords whom valiantly watch over every pixel to ensure they get the maximum IPO value! Just kidding, the bots decided to make it another flag or osu image or some stupid shit.

    • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
      511·
      1 year ago

      The message has been there since day 1 surprisingly they haven’t tried censoring it yet.

      edit: sorry should have fact checked it’s being overwritten by shitstains with some W1 poster whatever thats supposed to be (bots of course)

      edit2: TIL its the logo for KICK of course that explains everything

      edit3: they’re mostly back now 😎👍

  • 001100 010010@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    65·
    1 year ago

    Sadly this message is already being overwritten by bots

    Edit: the message about 3rd party apps is also being overwritten

    • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah, I think we’re unique in that other than a few logos, Touhou, the Vista taskbar and the “Gotcha - anything else?” meme. Other than the Horalky bar (-660, -150, which I redesigned to include antialiasing), it’s likely the only manually antialiased text in the canvas. I imitated the DIN (aka Bahnschrift) Condensed font, used widely for signage in Europe, for legibility at limited width.

      • ChaoticNeutralCzech@feddit.deOPEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Thanks! I tried to replicate the famous DIN (aka Bahnschrift) font. The anti-aliasing was neccessary to fit into such a cramped space while keeping a slick font. Some say that this is the first antialiased text on this year’s Place - it’s not: other examples include 東方 (Touhou) (where Bad Apple!! was), the “osu!” logo, the “Gotcha anything else?” meme, the entire Charizard card, parts of the Vista UI, the Olympia logo (main German flag above Starry Night) and one I also drew: the Horalky wafer. Antialiasing is worth it if the community is well coordinated and will help against vandalism - it is harder to change one letter into another. This is why we avoided amogusification of the A.

        A big problem with the design is the J touching the logo. I have removed the leftmost two pixels to fix it but copies of my template were left unpatched so IDK if I get to change it.

      • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
        537·
        1 year ago

        That’s a crazy thing to say as someone who doesn’t know me! It’s 1:40 am for me and I don’t have to work tomorrow. I am playing a game and tab to Reddit on my second monitor every few minutes to place that thing down. I’m just trying to fight the good fight, sorry to break it to you.

          • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
            18·
            1 year ago

            Same I said “a game” on purpose 😂, I’m playing Pokemon Ultra Moon on citra right now preparing to shiny hunt some stuff later 😎🔫.

        • LemmyNameMyself@lemmy.world
          922·
          1 year ago

          But it doesn’t matter what you put on the canvas - the point is that you are driving up engagement and that’s exactly what Reddit wants

          • fidodo@lemm.ee
            422·
            1 year ago

            I learned about Lemmy by finding a Reddit alternatives post on Reddit. People need to find out somehow. This can also get covered by blogs and other social media network posts. I think the net effect will cause more people to find out about Lemmy and leave Reddit, so it’s a temporary one off engagement that leads to much more disengagement from users who leave after finding an equivalent alternative.

            • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
              20·
              1 year ago

              Especially considering the note is in the literal middle of place and has been there for most of the timelapse so far. People undervalue that position HEAVILY.

              • rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee
                2·
                1 year ago

                Same here, found out about Lemmy on Reddit, but some time ago in discussion about where to go if Reddit bans a sub. Didn’t actually start using Lemmy until shit hit the fan.

          • genoxidedev1@kbin.social
            44·
            1 year ago

            Yes. I am going around my town telling everyone to go to Reddit and do that. I am SO driving up engagement. Because compared to the bots replacing the Marocco school and the flags every 5 seconds are a minority compared to my block that I placed to advertise another website. Yes.

        • 👁️👄👁️@lemm.ee
          218·
          1 year ago

          That’s awesome! I still don’t need to know anything about you to still say it’s not worth your time going on Reddit lol.

  • i_ben_fine@lemmy.oneEnglish
    181·
    1 year ago

    You can tell reddit sucks now cuz r/place doesn’t have gay and trans rainbows shooting all over

  • MrSilkworm@lemmy.worldEnglish
    171·
    1 year ago

    I’m just not interested in Reddit anymore. Haven’t logged in since July 1st. Deleted the app and, I’m just lurking to see how this shitshow will end up. My 2 cents is that Reddit will gradually fall since a lot of the content creators, moderators and engaged people have left and a lot more will leave. It will take a lot of time but it will.

  • joshhsoj1902@lemmy.caEnglish
    9·
    1 year ago

    I actually feel a little sad seeing the BaconReader logo there. I had been using it for so long, and for the last 4 or so years it was the only way I used Reddit.

    When I signed out of BaconReader that was the only place I was signed in, and I was pretty sad when I uninstalled it. Seeing the logo there brought that emotion back.

  • AlexWIWA@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2014·
    1 year ago

    I honestly kinda don’t want the general population of Reddit to join. I like that this place feels like pre-redesign Reddit.

    The culture of the community massively started shifting around the time Alien Blue got bought out.