Reddit has decided to run another edition of r/place in mid July for some unimaginable reason.
https://sh.itjust.works/post/1387534
It seems to me that it would be stupid to not at least attempt to advertise for Lemmy given the perfect opportunity. Many have expressed concerns about giving reddit more traffic, but a few thousand users is less than a rounding error to reddit. However, getting a few thousand more redditors to move to Lemmy would be great for us.
Hopefully I can get a few sh.itheads to help in this noble endeavor. If not, at least I tried.
Why on Earth would they run r/place not only in the middle of July but right in the middle of a massive fight with their user base?
To boost the active users numbers
Which raises the question: if the point is to raise the number of active users for July, what do they plan on doing for August? Like, a slow descent from June to July to August wouldn't look great to a potential investor, but surely a steady increase to July followed by a sheer cliffface down to August would look even worse right??
Launch their IPO? Get the capital while the numbers are hot?