Listen, for the last 2-3 months, I've only visited Reddit to participate in /r/RedditAlternatives. I've moved everything here. I want to make that happen for others too. I'm happy here.

I don't even subscribe to this subreddit or any of the ones about other social media sites. I tend to downvote anything I do see about Reddit or Twitter, because I just don't need to hear about them any more.

I'm driving very little traffic Reddit's way, and the only time I do so is to hasten it's demise. The most people that we ever had on the chat planning this banner was around 10 that I saw.

This is getting tons of press. I'm quite certain we drove more people here than we drove traffic there. It's worth it IMO.

Good to get awareness out there, the more people who know about these federated alternatives the better, even if it means having to use Reddit (where there's still a huge population of potential converts)

Can't we just make our own place? Like a permanent one that's better than Reddits?

Do you really think we have any chance of driving engagement/traffic up (or down) in any significant way? You are overestimating our numbers and vastly underrating theirs.

Yeah that's the point, and it's why this is the first r/place that's not on April Fools.

It's crazy transparent, they're desperately trying to get some green statistics before they go public.

didn't notice this, I use a couple of alts and create a new one from time to time (although I do this less and less because I mostly use lemmy instead now)

While responding to another person with a similar problem, I saw someone suggest that another person's VPN might have been using the banned IP Adress.

My girlfriend also had the same problem right before reddit pulled the recent app shenanigans. All of her appeals were immediately banned, despite the fact that she only really lurked. Out of the two of us, we figured that my account would have been the one to go, because I actually commented and posted things. Nope.

Idk if there's a script but yesterday or somewhen, ChaoticNeutralCzech shared this template

I really doubt they worked with xQc on this.

Not because I put it past them, but rather because he was gonna do this regardless

You’d think xQc would be all for sowing the chaos of pushing users to a different platform.

Thank you! It was a pleasure working with you!

The equivalent of being broken up with, then posting daily on Facebook about your ex and contacting all her friends to tell them he's/she's the bad one

The argument about engagement being worth a lot is kinda silly. The initial numbers of “look at how good we can do!” immediately followed by “but everyone using it has left” isnt a good thing. Advertisers want stability not “big number for short time.”

Look at it this way: If you were an advertiser, would you go with an advertisement campaign on a site that had an average of 1000 users each and every day, or a site that had 100,000 users for a single day, and 10 for the rest of the year?

I have, that's how I discovered r/fuckcars, now c/fuckcars. I did so last time r/place was around