Reddit's collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit's CEO.

‘FUCK SPEZ’: Reddit Users Unite to Turn r/Place Mural Into a Protest::Reddit’s collaborative art project seemingly has one overarching message to Reddit’s CEO.

  • Darkard@lemmy.worldEnglish
    103·
    1 year ago

    Over the last few hours, many of the “FUCK SPEZ” drawings have started to be taken over by other image, causing users to suggest that Reddit admins are interfering with their art (there is no evidence so far that would prove this).

    Except the fact that the over writing pixels all arrive in large blocks at the same time rather than individually like real users would place them, and also that they appear with no username attached to them like user placed ones?

    They also went out of thier way to use the same checkerboard overwrites that they used on the guillotine, on a QR code that took people to a website promoting veganism.

    • puppy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      273·
      1 year ago

      QR code was a mistake and does not suite that use case. Changing a few spots would have corrupted the URL whereas a “Lemmy” sign would’ve been much better. Even with corrupted pixels, it would still be distinctly recognizable.

      • hyperhopper@lemmy.mlEnglish
        47·
        1 year ago

        This is not true: QR codes have built in error correction, they are designed specifically for the purpose of working when many pixels are distorted

      • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlEnglish
        29·
        1 year ago

        QR codes have error corrections up to about ~30% error tolerance when using the highest error correction level

        It’s worth noting the QR code from earlier went to this site and was not lemmy related

        • Darkard@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          1 year ago

          Ah, my mistake! I misunderstood when the post said “this site” I took it to mean “this site we are on” and I never bothered to check it.

          I’ll edit my comment

          • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.mlEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            Ah I can see that. I just wrote “this site” to keep the mystery of what the QR codes to a little alive like how it’s be if you scanned it

    • randint@feddit.nlEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Ah, I actually did successfully scan the qr code to a website promoting veganism. It was Dominion.

    • Hello Hotel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      (there is no evidence so far that would prove this).

      i saw a (likely deleted) post saying there were pixels with no user names of those who changed it “aint that sus”