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.oooJoin the Matrix Space
#lemmy-canvas:matrix.org
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Place is fun. Glad to see that it’s going to happen here too.
It seems there is a fair number of people wanting to “not copy Reddit.” But it seems they forget that the whole reason they are on Lemmy/Kbin is to find an alternative to Reddit, that basically works like Reddit. The sentiment of “don’t do what Reddit does” should apply only to the shifty stuff Reddit does, like cutting off API access to good developers.
as long as the “Fuck Spez” tags are kept to a minimum
I agree. Place is an awesome idea and its inventor doesn’t even work for reddit anymore. The idea extends beyond Reddit, so why not have a big canvas for lemmy?
As much as a lot of people want to shit on Reddit (myself included), they did do some things right over the years.
If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?
So we can write fuck spez, but this time on Lemmy.
What’s the downside? Just something fun to do
We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with another platform’s tradition
Does it count as a new tradition if we don’t poop all weekend?
Good plan. You’re on. You go first.
Oh no you’re not getting me to poop first that easy
Have you ever read a single history book? Humans are not very creative. All traditions are copying the tribe next door’s tradition with a little twist. That’s just how culture works.
This, plus something is better than nothing! Also nobody’s saying we can’t do anything else later. Nothing wrong with taking something tried and tested to get the ball rolling
The age old tradition of cultural appropriation.
Where’s the twist?
couldn’t be worse than having cloudflare verification on a can of beans
Don’t knock our fucking traditions, Carl
Were you not amused by Poop and Beans??
If you thought Reddit had a lot of fuck spez spam on place, wait till you see lemmys version.
I’d really prefer if we do our own thing and let Reddit slowly fade into obscurity.
Yeah me too but people are addicted to their corporate masters.
I mean, it’s mostly going to be a lot of 503 Server not found or an army of bots will take over to draw some yiff art.
Hah yo
Hah yo
I hope not. He won’t even see it
What does it mean for an instance to “join in”? Can users not participate unless their instance has joined?
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.
Why?
For Federated users to visit from your instance click this: !canvas@toast.ooo
Joining would be neat but… how?
angry developers can do anything
That’s exciting! Would be interesting to see what kind of people are really here lol
I’m not partial to it, but more power to y’all who like it. I’ll watch the time-lapse nonetheless.
Sounds fun. Hopefully we can get a bunch of niche communities to show their love.
Gonna be fun
c/PlaceNever understood what was appealing about place and will not be attempting to understand. But if it makes people happy…whatever
I never understood Minecraft until I saw what ppl built in there. Place is (was?) a wonderful display of organized, chaotic and artistic choices and behaviors. Participation is awfully slow but that seems to add to the amazing effects the occur. I always found the anarchistic behaviors interesting, like the void. I helped with rainbow road a bit just to be a part of it, nothing serious though just a couple pixels here and there.
The first iteration was cool for awhile. It came out of nowhere and people spontaneously created art together, battled other groups trying to do the same, chose colors as their flag of war. I had a window open in the background that I would pop in on every ten minutes or so while I worked to try to support a small piece that I liked.
Then people coded bots for it and it got hyper-organized. They announced the next one ahead of time and it absolutely destroyed the soul of the thing. The second and third ones were a fucking joke. Watching the time lapse was embarrassing as immediately the entire canvas was covered with flags and brands. Awful idea to bring here.
Sounds nifty as long as it works as intended.
