Lemmy Canvas 2023 has ended!
It was really been a blast to run this event, thank you all for participating!! β₯β₯β₯
Timelapses, pixel placement log file & any other info is available at https://toast.ooo/post/288913
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I didnβt even know it existed so they clearly need to advertise it better.
Funny. I knew all about it and saw mentions and promotions leading up to it and during it multiple times. I'm guessing some time zone displacement or something? Maybe some community separations?
Same here, I saw several announcements on Fediverse communities and elsewhere
I posted here about this exact question already, but it was very difficult to get instance admin's attention π
Iβm an instance admin and Iβve never heard of this matrix room before. Did you try advertising it on the official matrix Space for Lemmy?
I didn't advertise it in the general project chat, I sent it in the general admin chat
my reasoning was to "surprise" the general users of lemmy but still give admins plenty of time to prepare for it
if you're an instance admin, there is a Matrix room specifically for instance admins & canvas here
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
In hindsight a smaller canvas might have made it a bit busier, but Iβll tell you what: Iβm impressed the effort has been translated over from rPlace. Run this one again in a year or so and I can imagine it being way more popular.
Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of white. r/place loses all the white within minutes
It's not like Reddit has over 1000x more users than Lemmy or anything
Well, that's their point. With a smaller population we want a smaller canvas.
Its mostly the bots that ruined place.
Hence why Lemmy should have a smaller canvas
They were more proactive at blocking bots.
That happens on Reddit, no?
I thought that was disabled this time around, but I haven't participated myself.
I do plan on running one next year, possibly with a smaller canvas
but with the amount of people interested after the event concluded, we might stick with the same size for next year, but who knows right now π
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (![email protected]) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
Seems like a good balance-- big enough to not devolve into territory battles, small enough to look full in the end.
The fun thing is seeing what content is missing-- it seems like some fandoms never really migrated to the Fediverse. For me, a lack of Genshin stands out; anything this big usually gets a Fallen Qiqi out of principle.
TIL we had our own Place going on and I somehow missed it. π
It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (![email protected]) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
What?? When was this? Aw, man!
When's the next one?
It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (![email protected]) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
You can make a federated link by going ![email protected] rather than posting the link, makes it much easier for users to join from LW!
fixed π
Thanks! I subscribed, and will hopefully see it on the feed next time haha
Never really followed this closely over on reddit ... but it seems like people were happy to draw stuff they found fun ... which is cool! The My LIttle Pony stuff, the Blahaj shark, star trek, diagonal rainbow, Marx, NIN, Arch Linux, a few instance tags ... all up it seems fun and like it was a success! Kudos to the people that put this together!!
Ya this is the first post I've seen about it. I'm sad I missed it.
For real what the shit man, I'm almost exclusively on lemmy nowadays and saw NOTHING about this until right now.
It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (![email protected]) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
I'm spewing i missed this. Next time I'll be available i hope
TIL lemmy had a canvas
I was expecting the QR code to be a rick roll, but it wasn't. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Edit: There were some Rick rolls in the first 24h, my day is slightly less ruined
Carrot farmers: "It ain't much, but it's honest work"
Wha? We had a canvas??
Happy to see Canada finally figured out their flag
I was trying to build our mascot all by myself but never got to 30% at best. Thanks to those who tried helping without any idea at first before completely screwing it up with some three-eyed monstrosity, lmao.
I'm sorry you couldn't finish it, but...for whatever reason, this comment is the funniest thing I've seen and hardest I've laughed at anything all day, so thank you for that!
I'd like to thank the Germans for not covering up our N7 logo.
I think it went really well. Better than I expected.
As always, there was something new to think about, so even if I wasted a lot of time I still feel that I learned something from the experience.
For those of you who didn't know about this, or did know and can't get enough community pixel art fun, there's an eternal canvas on https://pixelcanvas.io/ (beware: it's completely unmoderated, so prepare to see some unsavory stuff on there.
I ran a fork of pxls for this event and they have their own instance at https://pxls.space, and compared to pixelcanvas.io, is moderated (if that's what you're looking for) :)
Also for anyone unaware yourworldoftext.com and ourworldoftext.com are good canvas sites, the former having a rich history and many years of activity the latter being more featureful and open source
Thank you for organising this!
So many my little pony drawings! It's always cool to see this, hoping for another one next year, when the community will be bigger!
Kinda disappointed that Nyancat wasn't at the end of that rainbow.
Any specific reason for the special emphasis of the German flag?
Germans always do this, on r/place, too. They do make sick pixel art over there, though
I'm not German but I like it a lot. It was my favorite recurring thing on there
It's more like 3 really wide pixels.
I can believe that it's over already. I wanted to contribute but could never find the damn page...
That seemed to be a major hiccup this time around, getting the word out there
my plan for next year's is to give 30 days and 7 day notice before the event starts
make sure you're subscribed to ![email protected] & in the Matrix space so you don't miss it next year
Ohhh man, I'm out of the loop, and I thought I was being helpful earlier, but I wasn't. What's the matrix space? It's not the federation?
Am I getting this right that it's like self-hosted email, but for chat? Or do we have to pick an instance to host the chat log? How do people normally go about picking? How does matrix space tie into the canvas community on toast ooo?
Surely there's a Eli5 page or community for this matrix-space? Does matrix space go by any other name?
Thank you for your time! I already love where this is going, but don't wanna wet my socks just yet and sign up for many things willy nilly in case I lose track :0
No worries man, it's a definite change from how the internet currently exists (i'll make a landing page explaining all these in more detail in the coming days)
The first link, ![email protected], will open up the community (the Lemmy equivalent of Reddit's "subreddits"). Being subscribed to that community will allow posts to the community to show up in your home feed
Matrix
Matrix is a chat protocol that is a federated live chat system, the Matrix protocol is not ActivityPub (what Lemmy, Mastodon and others run on) it runs on it's own protocol. The most popular client for Matrix is Element. You can host your own homeserver using Synapse, but it's highly recommended to use their main instance (
matrix.org-- it's also the default option when you open Element in browser).Matrix is setup in a way that you don't have to worry about missing old messages when you are on a new instance. When you join a new room ("channel") in Matrix, you will automatically be able to read old chat messages by backfilling old messages. Matrix also runs a very convenient website to share rooms with other people (
matrix.to-- which is linked in my original comment) that will open a list of apps to open the room with (no vendor lock in).Matrix is designed in a way were it doesn't matter what instance you are registered under. No matter the instance, you'll be able to read the chat, history and participate in live conversation.
Hopefully this cleaned some stuff up for you and like I said at the start of the post, I'll be making a landing page also explaining this stuff to help other people navigate this as well :)
(cc others in this thread: @[email protected] & @[email protected] )
I'm confused by your link. It just leads me to a page to download yet another Lemmy app. I don't want to do that. I'm happy with Infinity and Voyager.
~~I've been switching between Jerboa and Liftoff, and now you've had this issue, I've downloaded Voyager. When I click on ![email protected] in either of the three, the community opens within the app I'm using. Bug maybe? In Voyager, try searching
[email protected]
I managed to get to it that way. Hope it helps for now ^.^~~
Edit: NVM, I misunderstood instructions! I think they didn't mean to just sub to the community, but we actually need to use a chat-style app (the matrix space?). Not lemmy?
Haven't had this happen with Sync though. I guess proprietary ad-supported clients have the budget to make QoL improvements faster. Although, I do love Voyager as well!
Thank you for an eye-opening experience.
I love it, it's beautiful, I don't mind the white space, everyone had enough to do their own things, it was mostly peaceful, and I'm enjoying seeing my contribution (and being able to actually contribute in the first place).
Im happy my lil BPO icon survived
Me, looking at the 6 pixels i placed until i forget about the browser tab:
I did my part!
Wait we had a canvas and Germany dominated it somehow?!
They always have been
First I thought βoh, Nine Inch Nails is hereβ, but then I saw its subtitle βc/creampiesββ¦
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This canvas kinda looks like prototypical Finns waiting for the bus
A lot of snow between the pixels
Why does Germany always do that line on these canvas things? Does somebody have a bot or something to help with it?
PlaceDE is a huge community and there's probably a lot of bottled up desire to put the flag since it's socially frowned upon to hoist it outside of football cups.
Really? Why?
Love seeing Konqi on there. What a cutie.
what's with the non human animals thing
The furries, or the My Little Ponies?
There's a lot of childrens cartoon type stuff, is it a joke or for real?
Most of it is My Little Pony, which has a huge fanbase.
QR code has a 42 on it and that video is number 42 in a series
The non human animal thing is about the confusing attitudes & behaviors humans have towards them, and how they are unequally applied based on arbitrary traits or nebulous concepts. In other words, in consideration of those individuals who desire to not be used or exploited, why everyone currently exploiting them needs to consider changing those attitudes & behaviors.
Wait, thereβs an osu! community on lemmy?! Where?!
The osu logo was one of the first things on the canvas lol
It's osugenesis, happens by itself, pay no mind to it. Side effects of the simulation.
Attends... il existe un canva Lemmy ??
Wait... there is a Lemmy canvas??
It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (![email protected]) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
Thanks for this, I had fun with it!
The small "LCP" I made to the right of the Aphex Twin logo survived yayyyy π
That is amazing. Great job everyone!
Super fun! i was able to draw a little cat and have it survive.
Disappointed to see just a copy of reddit. Whatever.
There aren't any rules on the Fediverse. Ain't nobody stopping you from doing something you find new and exciting.
Not a copy of Reddit. There seems to be a lack of "fuck u/Spez" art.
The whole concept is a copy.
Next canvas there will be a fat flag of Russia and no one will stop me :)
i never heard of russia, is it a dish or something?
Let's find out.