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Canvas — The Fediverse’s r/place


July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT

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Was on August 4th (12:00am EST) - 6th (11:59pm EST) Thank You Post


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Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!

I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.

This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating!

Future Events

I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!

I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event

If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them

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[–] [email protected] 106 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Thank you for creating it! Honestly, I enjoyed this one more than r/place.

[–] [email protected] 73 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Great thing that there was much less vandalism. I was able to single-handedly put my work on there and didn't have to fix up anything at all.

[–] [email protected] 39 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Same, that was a nice surprise. I was worried that the green labyrinth would consume my build but it just started growing along the edges, so I helped it spread further afterwards :))

[–] AbouBenAdhem 33 points 11 months ago (4 children)

I did most of the labyrinth! My original idea was that it would be more of an interstitial background linking other artwork together.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago

Way less vandalism. I noticed the don't got erased on the "don't that on me" and I think that's now gone entirely, probably because it's now associated with Tea Partiers in the states.

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[–] [email protected] 78 points 11 months ago (2 children)

I know it's largely due to a smaller user base, and therefore smaller spread to overly popular personalities and groups, but this is so much nicer without the exceedingly large national flag patterns and huge streamer vanity projects.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

Being able to actually differentiate things at a glance is nice too

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago

this was so much fun~ Because of everything that happened on reddit I wasn't able to enjoy r/place much. So I am really happy that it happened here and it gave me a reason to finally create an account ^^ I feel proud for what I was able to do on the canvas and also happy how the canvas turned out. I'm excited for next year~

[–] [email protected] 42 points 11 months ago (6 children)

The lack of vandalism gives me the heartwarming mental imagery of passionate people drawing the things they love while being kind and understanding to one another. It makes me unreasonably happy

[–] Pandantic 23 points 11 months ago (2 children)

And all the cooperation that went into not messing up people’s art. I made a bisexual flag heart by the Aussie flag, and the bronies messaged me and said “we want to put something there but we will move your heart. Is that okay?” Which I thought was nice. Lots of people helping others too! Such a difference from the other place, and it reminds me why I moved to Lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 11 months ago

It was an honor to place art with all of you <3 Thanks for bringing the fediverse community together with this event!

[–] [email protected] 32 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This looks so polite, like everyone is nice to others. Just like lemmy.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Damn, I missed it :/

Seems much nicer than the Reddit one

[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Doesn't it? The Reddit one is always such a mess

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago

Streamers ruined r/place. The first year was the only good one.

[–] FireWire400 25 points 11 months ago

Was my first time participating in something like this and after hearing what a clusterfuck r/place was.

This was surprisingly fun, more time would be great, though.

[–] [email protected] 24 points 11 months ago

Honestly, I didn't expect my name to stay ("Rin", bottom left ish inside the green box). I made it expecting it to be quickly overwritten, but people just went around it.

Someone even gave me a shadow. :)

[–] [email protected] 22 points 11 months ago

Look at that Canada finally got the maple leaf correct on their flag.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Few things to point out:

Go vegan!!! Yes!!!

Lot more My Little Pony than I was expecting...

Destiny community's in there

Love seeing all the Pokémon :)

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Congrats everyone, the final canvas is awesome!!
Till next time!

[–] [email protected] 21 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago

Thank you for running this, grant. Appreciate all the hard work.

A very small percentage of folks will always whine about some grievance or point out what they feel should have been done differently, but 99.9% of everyone who engaged had a great time, thanks to you, and you won't hear anything from most of them.

I got covid for the first time as of last Friday, so we're self isolating and lying low, so this gave me something to focus on and do for long stretches, and it genuinely made a big difference.

I was able to draw my old high school notebook comic character Block Head at 2 o'clock on the Firefox logo completely unimpeded by griefers or vandals. It was really nice. Thanks again.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago

It's been real fun!

[–] [email protected] 18 points 11 months ago (3 children)

Much white space

Very ponies

Wow

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Yeah, like it or not, Lemmy is not as big as Reddit. One weekend wasn't long enough.

Then again, no bot armies was nice.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Thanks, that was interesting. Pretty different experience when there's very little contention for space.

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[–] sanguinepar 16 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

It was great fun, thanks for hosting it, and also thank you to everyone who didn't paint over my DAFC badge. I love that some nice folks painted the Trans flag there, and went underneath mine, and even left a nice single white pixel border, looks great!

Also, that coffee machine is great 😃

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[–] yokonzo 15 points 11 months ago (2 children)

OH CRAP this was its own thing?!? Now I’m sad, I saw this and immediately assumed it was place so I ignored it 😥 that’ll teach me to read first

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 11 months ago (1 children)

When did this happen?? I didn't see it at all

[–] [email protected] 15 points 11 months ago

it was really hard to get the word out for this event, but the next time this event happens I'll be announcing it on this community and in the Matrix space

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

Seeing all the pixels come together and find their place with all the different design ideas going around is always fun to see.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago

I participated. It was awesome being able to make a difference just by spending some time on it. I never really felt that in Reddit (I didn't participate in the first one).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Wasn't able to participate until today but I managed to place that small pencil in the bottom left corner. Was a fun little project. Can't wait until next time!

[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Shout out to bronies for starting us out!

[–] ShapesLemmyAccount 12 points 11 months ago

I thought it was impossible to get something meaningful down but I eventually made something nice in the end!

[–] p0ppe 12 points 11 months ago

Awesome experience and really showed what a great community the Lemmyverse is. Thanks for running it!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

07 to all you pixel placers

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago

Thank you for this!

[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

Cudos to the guy who completed the south park characters . I am sorry I couldn't help after coloring cartman

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago

Sooooo proud of you guys. Most of us have only been here for like a month and asked you created that? Big props! <3

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I count finish my librewolf icon

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Thanks everyone who helped with my logo AMOGUS and creating 9 different AMOGUS with me!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

I like the native wheel with the pride maple leaf and Canada goose.

Also, way too many My Little Ponies lol

[–] bcjin 9 points 11 months ago
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