• Korkki@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Giving the site massive amounts of traffic in attempt to crowdsource a another 100x30 pixel “Fuck Spez” banner. Spez must be getting pads on his back for this.

    • whatsarefoogee@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      A burst of traffic doesn’t mean much if it doesn’t stay. It’s a safe assumption that most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.

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        1 year ago

        Is there any indication people have actually left Reddit? Obviously here on Lemmy a lot of us came from Reddit but we’re definitely a small minority.

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        most people participating in “fuck spez” already had an account, so they aren’t getting many new users from this.

        Why would a person even become a new user just to shit on spez, they have no stake in the drama anyway? I still have an account but I have lessened my usage to a fraction. I don’t go to R/place to “protest”, nor do I make bot accounts or alts to spam the place.

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      The thing is, most of the accounts participating this year were bots made specifically for this. Yes it’s a burst of traffic, but it’s a burst of traffic that will drop off a cliff as soon as it’s over.

      The botting was so bad this year that a small community or a single person couldn’t do anything, I tried to mess around with an 8 pixel space and as soon as I put a pixel down, it was undone.

      The Germans had something like 50k or more bots set up for this. That’s why there were so many German flags everywhere.