Users are already planning protest art. I personally wouldn’t encourage people to join because it’s more traffic for Reddit, but that’s just me.

On other news, apparently requesting a subreddit now requires a 28d old account with 100+ karma.

EDIT: it's on again, since 20min ago:


The only two recognisable things are the “fuck spez” and nationalists spamming some government flag.

EDIT 2: better view:


I think that the meaning of the sentence in German up there should be rather obvious. It’s on-topic.

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    1 year ago

    Is that the pixel art thing?

    Yup.

    …how much of it will just be “fuck u/spez”?

    No idea - the ones who were pissed the most left. But hopefully quite a bit.

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      I think some enterprising souls may come back just to coordinate on making /r/place an advertisement for how shitty Reddit is being, as well as increasing awareness of alternatives like lemmy. And I think that’s great.