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
We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with another platform’s tradition
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.
What does it mean for an instance to “join in”? Can users not participate unless their instance has joined?
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.
If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?
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.
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.
