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
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    1 year 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
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    1 year ago

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

  • Chipthemonk@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • TheSpookiestUser@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 year 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.