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Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place -- Happening this weekend! (lemmy.world)
submitted 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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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](/c/canvas@toast.ooo)

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

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[–] 18 points 3 years ago (3 children)

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.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    One pixel every 5 minutes? That sounds extremely tedious.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    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).

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  • [–] 2 points 3 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.

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