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
Why copy one of the lamest things about Reddit
you know what would be cool? if we took that site 4chan used to draw swastikas on and make it a fomo event to drive site traffic metrics. wouldn’t that be cool?
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.
why
If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?
Never understood what was appealing about place and will not be attempting to understand. But if it makes people happy…whatever
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.
The first iteration was cool for awhile. It came out of nowhere and people spontaneously created art together, battled other groups trying to do the same, chose colors as their flag of war. I had a window open in the background that I would pop in on every ten minutes or so while I worked to try to support a small piece that I liked.
Then people coded bots for it and it got hyper-organized. They announced the next one ahead of time and it absolutely destroyed the soul of the thing. The second and third ones were a fucking joke. Watching the time lapse was embarrassing as immediately the entire canvas was covered with flags and brands. Awful idea to bring here.
