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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time (www.theverge.com)
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Reddit is bringing back r/Place at perhaps the worst possible time::Reddit is bringing back r/Place — a collaborative project where individual users can edit pixels on a giant canvas — at a time when user dissatisfaction with the platform is very high.

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[–] CataclysmZA@lemmy.world 116 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Spez has almost never had the gift of foresight.

[–] Holodeck_Moriarty@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What do you mean? I heard that he sees great potential in the youth.

[–] AaAaaaAaAA@aussie.zone 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So that's what he's calling it these days

[–] UserDoesNotExist@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You are missing the point. People will return there to partake. r/place was immensely popular.

Most people expected a 5 year wait. So for most people this becomes a refreshing surprise. And for the duration of the event, many people on Lemmy will return to Reddit. They will partake in organising pixelart and thereby getting pulled back into Reddit communities.

[–] AaAaaaAaAA@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago

Lol I was just taking a cheap shot at spez by claiming he calls his penis "potential"

[–] stinky613@lemmy.sdf.org 28 points 1 year ago

Spez has never had the gift of foresight. Reddit was Paul Graham's idea after he shot down the idea that Huffman and Ohanian pitched

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/09/how-steve-huffman-and-alexis-ohanian-built-reddit

[–] assassinatedbyCIA@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Even the laser eye surgery couldn’t fix it.

[–] rDrDr@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

You don't need foresight when you can just go into the database and rewrite history.