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Hello all, I'm sharing this here because I think it is a fun and interesting initiative that users might appreciate knowing about.

The instance https://toast.ooo/ is running an event similar to Reddit's /r/place. Here you can find their post announcement. The canvas can be reached here: https://canvas.toast.ooo

If you are not familiar with /r/place: the idea is that every user gets to place pixels on a canvas. After placing a pixel, there is a 1 minute cool-down before you are able to place the next pixel.

To log-in, you fill-in your instance's name and username, and you are sent a code as a private message which you then use to authenticate. So the method of authentication does not expose your username and password combination to a third party.

I find it cool how third-party events like this one can be integrated into the decentralized Lemmyverse without requiring active input from instance admins.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Of course the most prominent thing is My Little Pony. Lemmy is infested with furries and bronies.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Well they certainly seem organized! ๐Ÿ˜œ

I don't like to be a cynic, and if those pixels really were placed there by a very organized community of fans of my little pony I think that's actually very cool. But my suspicion is that someone used a bot to create that, and I'm not sure that they did it because they are fans of the cartoon. I'd love to see evidence of my suspicion being wrong though!

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Since I wrote that, I looked more into it and I no longer think that it is a bot. I think think that they really are some very dedicated My Little Pony fans. They did move super quickly so I think they are using some strategies such as opening a lot of different accounts in multiple container tabs (which is not against the rules). I now think that they might actually like the show and are doing this in good faith, and in that case I was being too cynical in my above comment. Good for them!

[โ€“] udes1516 5 points 1 year ago

So what. Let them be.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Triggered much?

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

โค๏ธ

[โ€“] LemmyNameMyself 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not too fond of these country flags

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Let's run a canvas instance that bans all country flags

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm fine with country flags, but if you wanna start a second one, hey, go ahead -- more space for art!

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is our instance federating properly with toast.ooo? Just now I tried to look up a thread someone posted there but can't pull it up here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Yes, we should be federating properly.

Which post? How did you try to fetch it?

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh, I realized that the post was made by a user who's not on toast.ooo but I had copied the toast.ooo link.

https://lemm.ee/post/3186316 <-- this

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Ah, yes, it can be confusing! That's when the 'fedi-star' link is useful :)

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ooh!

I know of some people from the Phoenotopia fandom that have been trying to organize painting pixel art of the main character Gail onto /r/place. Gonna go take their templates and try to do this on Canvas!

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a second, smaller Mander logo centered around 718, 897.

Since the label on our bigger logo is being...partly underrun?, I'm adding a quick label to our smaller logo.

If anyone's around, you can come help out with the lettering. Just check the pixel art letters that are below and to the right.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago