Whenever Reddit hosted r/place, it got instantly dominated by streamers and massive clans covering the canvas in their insignia, anybody else who wanted to draw be damned. I remember in 2022 I was working with a smaller subreddit to try to put a 16x16 graphic somewhere unobtrusive and could scarcely put 3 pixels down before getting overwritten by the German flag that was already taking up 1/3 of the canvas.

On Canvas yesterday, somebody put up a ~50 pixels wide drawing of Princess Celestia fighting Nightmare Moon (something that wouldn’t have survived 20 seconds on Reddit before being vandalized) and the people drawing the osu! logo went behind it!

I’m just kind of amazed and stunned and glad that we seem to be infinitely better at silently collaborating and not stepping on each other than the people on That Other Site who are obsessed with pointless internet clout.

  • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
    60·
    6 months ago

    In general I find the community here to be less destructive and more collaborative :)

    • Zipitydew@sh.itjust.works
      7·
      6 months ago

      There are also far far fewer of us. Peak user count I’ve seen was just over 400. I’d bet unique users was in the 10k range.

      Place was seeing millions of users. Lot more competition going on for space.

  • inlandempire@jlai.lu
    43·
    6 months ago

    The first r/place felt like this, the other editions devolved into what people (streamers and communities that were not regular users of Reddit) called “pixel wars” when it was absolutely NOT the mood of the event

  • jpablo68@infosec.pub
    23·
    6 months ago

    I drew the word “Mexico” with the colors of the flag yesterday all by myself and not only I could finish it, it’s still up. I love you guys.

  • mark@social.cool110.xyz
    19·
    6 months ago

    @AVincentInSpace The template system is a big part of that since it makes active collaboration much easier, as long as the template authors are talking to each other then the rest of the community will automatically get new orders whenever they need to reload the page.

    For example that battle was originally planned along the other diagonal, before being flipped in a deal with the osu! logo. Same thing happened later on with the Rocket League logo being moved from where the blue portal is.

    • KoboldCoterie@pawb.socialEnglish
      8·
      6 months ago

      What’s been your problem with making an account? If you’re trying to do it from Lemmy, it should be very straight forward (you just need to be able to receive or send DMs, so if your instance has disallowed that somehow, I guess that would cause a problem.)

  • DBT@lemmy.world
    6·
    6 months ago

    The first canvas was like that. I was able to put my name in there and no one messed with it.

    I was honestly surprised when it was over and it was still there because I wasn’t monitoring it at all.

  • AlexisFR@jlai.lu
    61·
    6 months ago

    Up until they started to try to take down the NCD NATO flag at least

    • HubiEnglish
      7·
      6 months ago

      A moderate amount of fighting keeps it interesting IMO.