cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185

Hey all,

I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!

We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place

This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th

Some instances that are joining in:

Join the Lemmy Community !canvas@toast.ooo

Join the Matrix Space #lemmy-canvas:matrix.org

  • lemmycolon@lemmy.worldEnglish
    117·
    2 years ago

    We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with another platform’s tradition

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 years ago

    What does it mean for an instance to “join in”? Can users not participate unless their instance has joined?

    • 𝔊𝔦𝔫𝔧𝔲𝔱𝔰𝔲@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      19·
      2 years ago

      Seems like onboarding will be handled by a bot, so I imagine it shouldn’t really matter what instance you’re using. As for instances that are “Joining in”, I think that just refers to Admins for those instances promoting the event.

  • godless@lemmy.worldEnglish
    24·
    2 years ago

    If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?

  • Cruxifux@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    2 years ago

    If you thought Reddit had a lot of fuck spez spam on place, wait till you see lemmys version.

  • Jackthelad@lemmy.worldEnglish
    14·
    2 years ago

    I’ve been on Reddit for seven years and I still don’t know what this r/place even is and why people are talking about it.

    • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
      16·
      2 years ago

      it’s a live, collaborative art project. On reddit, you’d have hundreds/thousands of people all contributing at once.

      you have a blank page, you click on page to place coloured pixel. Wait 5 mins to place another.

        • Madbrad200@lemmy.worldEnglish
          4·
          2 years ago

          It is, but it’s the type of thing you pop in every now and then and place a pixel, and look at all the updated art that has occurred in the meantime. Everyone’s using the same canvas.

        • lwuy9v5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          It is limited, yes, the pixel you place is one amongst many - you are just one part of the much larger project. That’s the fun part

    • squidzorz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      2 years ago

      It was an event where one user can change the color of a single pixel at a time, choosing from a predefined color palette. There was a cooldown on how often you were allowed to color a pixel, 5 minutes or something, I don’t remember.

      It was a fun way for communities to band together and draw pixel art over the course of a week or so. It was fun the first time because it was spontaneous and there weren’t very many bots, if any. After that, it was just a competition of who paid for the most bot accounts so they could camp a space to keep a clear picture. Completely lost its draw IMO (no pun intended).

      • Springtime@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        2 years ago

        I had tried to participate one or two iterations ago. Each and every single pixel I tried to contribute was immediately turned into a red pixel by a bot. Took all the fun out of it.

        The picture was there and it was clear where they were trying to get to, but the red dots completely destroyed it.

        I had enough of it after that. It’s not worth it having to wait five minutes to place one pixel just to have it instantly undone again.

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    13·
    2 years ago

    Never understood what was appealing about place and will not be attempting to understand. But if it makes people happy…whatever

  • O_i@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 years ago

    That’s exciting! Would be interesting to see what kind of people are really here lol

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      2 years ago

      Credit where it’s due, Reddit was pretty good at coming up with novel ideas for social experiments for a few years (which also drove engagement, not coincidentally).

      If I were to come up with Place-but-not, for the fediverse and Lemmy specifically, I would do it like this:

      The canvas would start very small and divided into plots, with each plot “owned” by a user. The user who owns a plot can determine the pallete to be used in their plot, can whitelist / blacklist other users on their plot, and has a reduced cooldown on placing pixels inside their plot. They are the admin of their plot, basically, which is to mimic an instance.

      When every pixel of the canvas has been covered at least once or a certain amount of time has elapsed, it would expand with new auto-generated plots randomly assigned to users from among those who have placed a pixel. Plots could be regular squares or other irregular shapes. The most inactive plots could be blanked and reassigned to a new owner after a time.

      In this way, users would have to work together to make bigger art on the canvas or seek out a spot willing to cooperate with their art. You’d see alliances of plots, users making art around an uncooperative plot, hostile plots get ganged up on, hands-off plot owners allowing anything on their plot, and all sorts of shit like that that makes social experiments like this interesting. You’d likely still need top-tier admin intervention to remove hate symbols and the like.

  • Mars2k21@kbin.social
    2·
    2 years ago

    Would I be able to participate even though I’m on Kbin? OP on the announcement post says there is an authentication process.