• ekky43@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    They probably opened r/place as an outlet for anger; some temporary bad reputation now, so that those who are butthurt will shut up.

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      1 year ago

      They opened it to get more people to adopt their app and new reddit. It’s probably working.

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        1 year ago

        Worked great for threads, how much has their engagement dropped since they activated everyone’s Instagram account for it? 75%?

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      1 year ago

      Also for interaction - number of active users is a very important metric - and with something like this they basically guarantee that a lot of users are checking very regularly - and the investors for the IPO probably will never see that place

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        1 year ago

        Maybe some investors are that lazy, but I doubt it’s most. You can Google “reddit” right now and multiple articles come up about what’s going on with r/place, that’s pretty much the least you can do before investing in a company