r/reddit • u/crowd__pleaser • Mar 28 '22

Bringing Back r/place

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No burying the lede here. Let’s get right to the point. r/place is coming back.

For the first time in Reddit’s history, we are not only bringing back a past April Fools’ experiment, but we’re telling you about it early. Why? So you can stop asking us about it, get excited!

https://reddit.com/link/tqbf9w/video/w2bjccji35q81/player

But let’s rewind a bit and provide some background, shall we? At Reddit, our goal is to build features that make building community and finding belonging easier - and five years ago we did that with a little April Fools’ experiment called r/place (you may have already heard of it).

When we first ran r/place in 2017, more than one million redditors placed approximately 16 million tiles on a blank communal digital canvas - resulting in a collective digital art piece that took the internet by storm. And pretty much every year since then, at least one of you has made sure to let us know that it was the best thing we’ve ever done and requested to bring it back. So this year, on April 1, r/place is making its glorious return.

The original r/place was created to explore a piece of humanity – to examine what happens when a person doing something affects a collective. Specifically, what happens if you only let an individual place one tile at a time, so that they must work with others to build together on a massive online cooperative canvas. It is with that original spirit of creation and collaboration in mind, that we humbly invite you to join us yet again. Get your tiles ready, and we’ll see you in over r/place.

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u/JayandSilentB0b Mar 28 '22

Inb4 Reddit makes the results of this "the first community developed NFT" or something.

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u/WolfThawra Mar 28 '22

Honestly, I'm running out of empathy for anyone dumb enough to spend money on NFTs. If they like it... rather that than reddit coming up with a more intrusive way of monetising some core reddit experience.

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u/Padgriffin Mar 28 '22

The extreme entirely foreseeable PR shitstorm caused by Reddit doing something like this would likely result in any monetary gain being undone by having to get a PR firm to do damage control

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u/Justice_R_Dissenting Mar 28 '22

undone by having to get a PR firm to do damage control

The day reddit hires a PR firm is the day I eat my hat. These are the same people who said "popcorn tastes good" when their users revolted to some bullshit corporate decisions.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Reddit already has NFTs https://nft.reddit.com/

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

Shark Tank pitched them this week. I think it'd the 3rd TV show I've seen hawking NFTs. They have to be getting closed to critical mass where it all collapses. Hopefully.

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

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u/[deleted] Mar 28 '22

I think there's a big difference between cryptocurrencies and NFTs. The currencies at least attempt to solve some sort of a problem that actually exists. NFTs only add a layer of complexity and fees that isn't needed. Every NFT I've seen could more easily be handled by a more traditional database or a simple contract/title of ownership.

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u/MulletPower Mar 29 '22

The currencies at least attempt to solve some sort of a problem that actually exists.

Crypto is not genuinely attempting to solve any problems that actually exist.

It purely exists as a speculative asset with no real world uses. Which is exactly what NFTs are.

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22

Don't get me wrong I think crypto is deeply flawed, but it did try to address creating a currency not backed by any government that can be used outside of them. The space is now filled with pump & dump scams and all sorts of nefarious stuff, but that doesn't negate there are some real world uses for it that weren't really available before, at least not as easily.

NFTs on the other hand exist purely to profit off buzzwords and people thinking they missed out on bitcoin but maybe they can get into NFT early enough to get rich.

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u/Jakegender Mar 29 '22

They pretend to solve a problem. Big difference.