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[–] player2@lemmy.world 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

The admins are blatantly censoring the drawing, putting checkerboard squares or circles of random color over that part. Here are some screenshots I took only seconds apart.

[–] Nougat@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] oldGregg@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Sure, the silent majority of spez's accounts

[–] DigitalAudio@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 that's why reddit sucks.

[–] sab@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] amanneedsamaid@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

True, but I don't think the message comes across the same without it.

[–] Carnelian@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

[–] player2@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] LordOfLocksley@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wasn't an admin caught doing something similar last time place came around?

[–] dylanTheDeveloper@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah and when I pointed it out I copped 3 day suspension with no message

[–] archomrade@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

Idk how many times this has to happen before people stop giving them the benefit of the doubt.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Who else? Seriously... Who else?

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

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

[–] sol@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If this was being done over lemmy with lemmy.word admin name in it, would it be censored?

[–] amanaftermidnight@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

Come on man, that's Ruud.

[–] onichama@feddit.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I didn't know you could up/downvote on imgur. I wonder where all the downvotes came from...

[–] player2@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

lol yes there's a whole underground imgur social network full of users unaware that imgur was originally just an image hosting website for reddit. By default the images I uploaded were private but I decided to click the button to make them a public post just out of curiousity of what imgur's opinion on the matter might be. Turns out it's not interesting for them.

[–] Ryantific_theory@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It was hilariously bizarre when it was discovered that a population of mole people had been living inside reddit's image host for some period of time. Especially since they were were getting up in arms about how much reddit content was crowding up the site.

Wonder what life's like in there these days.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I won’t lie to you Lemmings. Everyone who has stood their ground, everyone who has fought an admin has been banned.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 year ago

I still am on reddit in order to keep posting "fuck spez" and to help people to switch

[–] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] idk837384@thelemmy.club 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] FreeloadingSponger@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (6 children)

These people cannot control themselves. They're protesting a company by making them money.

[–] IndisposedShakerCup@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The people you want to get off reddit are (shock) on reddit. While it makes reddit money in the short term, it spreads the word to people that aren't aware. Short term gain for hopefully long term loss.

[–] cottonmon@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is also why I don't mind the John Oliver stuff. It's interesting for now, but it will get boring. I just hope it doesn't get stupid like what happened on r/aww

[–] Arsonistic@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago

I'm a bit out of the loop, what happened on r/aww?

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[–] fleece@pawb.social 2 points 1 year ago
[–] TheDark@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lurker on Reddit, first comment on Lemmy. Let us hope this will become the better alternative 🙏

[–] xophos@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] MrSilkworm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

always has been

[–] Transcendant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Welcome :) we should all expect some teething problems as lemmy is growing so rapidly. Looking good so far though

[–] MeowdyPardner@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's also being griefed using obvious bots. Every 30 seconds or so the entire blade gets blocked out by a perfect checkerboard pattern done all at once. Or a perfect square will get whited out. Either spez is directing it or some reddit fanboy is defending his honor with a bot army

[–] wnose@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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

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[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 1 year ago

Anyone else remember when they had the last CEO institute a ton of egregious shit and then instead of running it back, they replaced her with spez and everyone then forgot about it?

[–] anewbeginning@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Just leave, ffs. It's annoying that in the end of the day people still remain in droves. The only hope is that reddit drives itself into being unusable.

[–] LazaroFilm@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I turned it into my Lock Screen.

[–] CyberedCake@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Unfathomably based

[–] Coreidan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Am I the only one who thinks place is lame? It’s just another Reddit circle jerk and everyone is falling for it hook line and sinker. Shit like this reminds me why the human population is mentally deficient and why politicians have such an easy time controlling us.

[–] Botree@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't understand why they'd do another round of place at a time like this. Like wtf did they think would happen?

[–] xT1TANx@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] solstice@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can someone please explain to me wtf r/place is? I'm so confused.

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

It's a subreddit/event that they do every year (or I think it's only once a year?) where every user can place a single, colored pixel on a large digital canvas.

Your pixel can be over-written by another user, and each user can only place one pixel every 5 minutes or so (and there's a lot of bot-use, which is lame)

So different subreddits will band together to try and orchestrate a picture and protect it from being over-written by other users (or bots... if possible)

So alliances between subreddits are formed, fall apart, some backstabbing and deception... all until the event is over and the final canvas is locked-in.

It was actually a pretty cool event. You could maybe join a discord, a pattern and placement would be followed, and you'd just drop a pixel where it needed to be when you could, to help the overall picture. Or go rogue and try and etch a tiny little corner somewhere yourself

I had fun with it last year, but c'est la vie. I ain't going back there for anything. Would be cool if the different instances could somehow do something of the same nature across the fediverse one day. It was the comradery and light-hearted fun that really made it

[–] sol@thelemmy.club 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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