As many of you may know, Reddit’s r/place is a popular social experiment that allows users to collaborate on a massive digital canvas by placing one pixel every few minutes. It fostered community engagement, creativity, and even some friendly competition between different groups.
Given Lemmy’s focus on community-driven content and open-source principles, I’m curious about your thoughts on potentially introducing a similar feature:
Questions:
- Do you think a Lemmy version of r/place would be beneficial for our platform? Why or why not?
- How could such a feature be implemented in a way that aligns with Lemmy’s values and decentralized structure?
- What potential challenges or drawbacks do you foresee with introducing this type of collaborative art project?
- If implemented, how often should such an event occur? Annually, quarterly, or as a one-time experiment?
- What unique twists or improvements could Lemmy add to make this feature stand out from Reddit’s version?
We had something like that last year called canvas. It was great! !canvas@toast.ooo
There already is one that’s been going on a couple of years: https://sh.itjust.works/c/canvas@toast.ooo
Why did I not know it?! GREAT!
The folks that host the toast.ooo instance have run an event like that for us the past two summers. Check out !canvas@toast.ooo to see last year’s result, and watch for news about the next one.
This reminds me that I need to plan some art for the next event!
Lemmy is nowhere near close to diverting developer resources to that.
Which is why awesome people like @grant@toast.oo do it instead
I suspect the functionality you’re interested in is supplied from https://ourworldoftext.com/home/ and/or https://ourworldofpixels.com/ so I don’t think that putting effort into replicating that is the most important thing to work on.
Didn’t we already have one last year?
If we did, I never noticed anything.
Dunno how you missed it, it swamped /all for the last two years whilst active.
We sure did, others have already commented.
We also have a slow version of this on one of the !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone communities.
also accessible at ツ.gay
yes, because it is fun, and we don’t have to make it different just to be different.
