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

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

  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    Cool, but I would argue that we should be creating our own traditions, not copying… *checks notes …a sad ploy to increase MAU numbers.

    I mean, back in the day, the games we used to play on forums were stuff like “Google Images Word Association” where someone would produce a random image, then someone else uses words that image made them think of, then search images based on that, then add another image to the thread, based on their word-search. Resulted in a lot of dumb funny shit.

    Anyway… Great idea, but it pains me that it’s just copying some bullshit from reddit that wasn’t about community but rather a weak attempt to gin up engagement metrics.

    • beta_tester@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      It sounds more like someone thinks reddit’s r/place is cool but doesn’t want to support reddit and wants to have it for lemmy. And most importantly, the person brings it to lemmy.

      Although it’s just a copy, it’s something fun where you can create something cool. And I celebrate OP for creating this. Count me in.