No, as others have said, the best protest would be a blank canvas.

Us going there to do that is the same as breaking up with your girlfriend then heading over to her house and making out with a new girl. "SEE, LOOK, WE'RE SO HAPPY WITHOUT YOU, SO HAPPY. GUYS YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW". Tacky for everyone.

I'm leaning in the direction of "don't agitate the pit of weasels."

It’s their game and their rules, so I think it’s best to just stay out of it. What I mean is, it could so easily be manipulated by Reddit in their favour - I can just imagine admins fixing themselves extra pixels so our areas get mysteriously vandalised. Even if not, joining in is what they want us to do.

You do you. It seems like many folks don't wish to give reddit any more of their time, others would like to see more people join the fediverse, some may not want to invite more Reddit users due to various reasons (increasing trolls, having people shit on lemmy because it is not yet polished and they can't figure it out, increasing strain on servers, or whatever their reason is). While we are still freshly in the post-migration phase since the implemented changes, we may still pick up a few new users, but I don't believe we will have such a surge again until there's another big change perhaps at the point where casual participants get fed up with the billionty ads, shitty app, and trolls who stay to earn their karma.

It would be a surprise if "fuck u/spez" doesn't spontaneously emerge.

We already have an ongoing topic about /r/place, so removing this under #4.

Could be good, a final FU to reddit

Apart from the fact we shouldn't bring them any traction, I'm not sure if that's the best way to advertise Lemmy. I mean, I think a big percentage of redditors have already heard of the threadiverse and they still choose to stay on Reddit for whatever reason. So a plain "join Lemmy" sign would probably seem like another annoying ad to them.

I think the best way to advertise the threadiverse is by sharing the content that's being created here and actually explaining/showing why it's a great platform to use. The more we do that and the more Reddit keeps pissing people off with their dumb updates and everything, the more people will end up checking the threadiverse out and hopefully joining it.