Does it count as a new tradition if we don't poop all weekend?

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.

couldn't be worse than having cloudflare verification on a can of beans

Were you not amused by Poop and Beans??

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.

as long as the "Fuck Spez" tags are kept to a minimum

So we can write fuck spez, but this time on Lemmy.

I'd really prefer if we do our own thing and let Reddit slowly fade into obscurity.

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.

I hope not. He won't even see it

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.

12 year redditor here. You're not missing anything trust me.

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).

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.

Hold on I got it, Place but...

three deee

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.