The existence of Lemmy is a testament to this.

Lemmy has existed before the reddit shitshow.

Ruining this year’s /r/place

Easy there, Robespierre. You won’t “ruin” r/place by creating some tiny logo that will be scrubbed away by the moderators in five minutes.

Ehh, flags dominated since the very first r/place.

But yes it’s pretty obvious each new edition is ever more astroturfed. The second one had lots of obvious organised bots designing perfect shapes and logos, and moderators’ meddling was noticed as well.

This will just turn the site into a massive shill fest full of people pandering

Ummm…

> I never got anything for all that sweet karma

Oh, but you could.

https://redaccs.com/