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submitted 11 months ago by starman@programming.dev to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

I want to see those all "fuck u/spez" pixel arts without driving any traffic to reddit.

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[-] glad_cat@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 11 months ago

Traffic means nothing. Go to https://www.reddit.com/r/place/ and enjoy.

Also, old reddit does not work, and you need an email in your account to put pixels (good bye privacy).

[-] athos77@kbin.social 49 points 11 months ago

Traffic means nothing.

I disagree. They have a reason for running it again, and the most obvious reason is to offset the traffic loss for July. Most advertisers aren't going to be aware that /r/place is a limited-time event. What they're going to see is what reddit will tell them: hey, we did these API changes, and yeah it cost us some traffic at the time, but traffic overall had recovered by the following month - hell, we even had a increase in traffic in July!

They know they've breached trust with their userbase, and they're trying desperately to avoid doing that with the advertisers as well.

[-] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Traffic means they can present it as a positive thing to future investors. Yes it’s smoke and mirrors and it won’t hold long. It just has to hold until the IPO then they will run away with the bank and leave it all to burn down.

[-] sim_@beehaw.org 14 points 11 months ago

Why do you say traffic doesn’t matter? Isn’t that the most likely reason they brought r/place back?

[-] Voyajer@kbin.social 13 points 11 months ago

The whole reason they're running an out of season /r/place event is to drive traffic.

[-] Micromot@feddit.de 11 points 11 months ago

10minutemail to the rescue

[-] Cheers@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

I tend to use a combination of fuckspez+1@gmail.com

You can increment the +1 to whatever and it'll count as a new email

[-] shapesandstuff@feddit.de 3 points 11 months ago

you need an email in your account to put pixels

They just can't stop being idiots

[-] Reddit_Is_Trash@reddthat.com 2 points 11 months ago

Tempmail go brrrr

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