• kadu@lemmy.world
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    “Fuck spez” they don’t care about. What we should do is a giant Lemmy flag, but that’s absolutely not something that would be possible unfortunately.

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    I like that they were able to coordinate enough to make “fuck spez” so visible (plus the “spez ist ein H*rensohn” = “spez is a son of a b*tch”). I just wish that they focused on the big picture - Spez himself is just a tool (in both senses) for Reddit Inc., and it’s the whole corporation that should be screwed over.

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      Yes, but it’s also a symbol. And there seems to be enough of a consensus in the zeitgeist, that that message appears to be somewhat self-organizing as a common sentiment. For something chaotic like /r/place that sort of undercurrent is a boon.

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        It’s easier to organise people towards a “fuck spez” than the other alternatives, I agree. But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much. And nationalists are already covering the message here and there with their flags.

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          But at the end of the day, a symbol is just a symbol - without anything directing people towards action, it doesn’t do much.

          Like the Occupy Wall street movement. It got a lot of attention, organized a lot of people, and accomplished nothing. People were like “what is this for?” And the answer was pretty much “we’re angry!”, So the reply was just “okay…”

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    Sorry for the double reply - just sharing a few of the current highlights:

    Reddit alien with "spez" on the face, in the guillotine

    "fuck spez" in two areas of the canvas

    "never forget what was stolen from us! r/savethirdpartyapps"

    From the last years, it seems to me that there’s less vandalism, and less overall fights for pixels. This might be due to lower engagement.

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      r/place is a battleground for hundreds of bots, possibly thousands.

      Well, yes. It’s on reddit.

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    Friendly reminder not to visit r/place. They are probably doing it now to get traffic to the site. I’m sure they expected this outcome.

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    How long has it been going? Took me about 5 mins to get their stupid app working to place a pixel. Contributed to the f spez.

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      On mobile, they’re forcing you to use their app, can’t do it in a phone browser. So dumb. Clearly grabbing for dowmloads

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        I’m guessing that it’s been a popular engagement device in the past that they are using it to drive numbers of connected and participating members. Each pixel perhaps represents a post.

        Not a bad idea but very short lived. And the outcome will be an f to spez lol. I’ll buy that t-shirt.

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    I’m slightly interested in finding out where that QR code is intended to go to, and whether they can keep it intact. Not interested enough to go back to Reddit to find out, though.

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      If they use a real QR code (instead of the compact data matrix), keeping it functional should be easy. QR has a very robust error-correcting code built into it.

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    I see an outline of a QR code in there. How well would that work if someone could just vandalize a single pixel within the code and break it?

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      QR code error correction

      I was curious about this a while ago but there are a bunch of features including error correction for damaged or partial codes. If I remember correctly, it was created for automated manufacturing so it makes sense to have redundancies to minimize delays and downtime.

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    I suggest we band together and write fediverse on the thing! All are represented, and those not in the know can search it up.