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The Button Season 1

Hello everyone - I hope you enjoyed the first season of The Button! I certainly did 😀

Below are some stats based on Season 1, which I hope you find interesting!


The Button — Season 1 Final Stats

Overview

StatValue
Duration12.6 hours
Total Players378
Total Presses292
Chat Messages2,906
Fediverse Instances58
Median Timer at Press13:32

Faction Standings

FactionControl %MembersPresses
Purple29.8%12499
Green29.6%10779
Blue26.0%9476
Red14.6%5338

Purple wins by just 0.2% over Green.

Records

RecordPlayerFactionValue
First Press@[email protected]Purple14:59 remaining
Last Press@[email protected]Green13:29 remaining
Fastest Reaction@[email protected]Green63ms after reset
Closest to Zero@[email protected]Purple1.4s remaining

Milestones

Press #PlayerFaction
1st@[email protected]Purple
10th@[email protected]Blue
25th@[email protected]Red
50th@[email protected]Purple
100th@[email protected]Purple
150th@[email protected]Blue
200th@[email protected]Blue
250th@[email protected]Red
292nd (final)@[email protected]Green

Top Instances

InstancePlayers
lemmy.zip118
lemmy.world64
sh.itjust.works34
piefed.zip14
piefed.social11
feddit.org11
lemmy.dbzer0.com8
lemmy.ca8
sopuli.xyz7
lemmy.blahaj.zone7

Hourly Activity

Hour (UTC)Presses
2026-03-31 20:0025
2026-03-31 21:0019
2026-03-31 22:0021
2026-03-31 23:0036
2026-04-01 00:0033
2026-04-01 01:0029
2026-04-01 02:0024
2026-04-01 03:0013
2026-04-01 04:0022
2026-04-01 05:0017
2026-04-01 06:0020
2026-04-01 07:0013
2026-04-01 08:0011
2026-04-01 09:009

I am working on updating the platform to support multiple seasons with modifiers :) more info soon!

View original on lemmy.zip

I didn’t use my press last night, and was disappointed to get up this morning and find it’s over. Now what am I going to do with this random Season 1 press that I now have to carry around?!?

17

Put it in the piggy bank and use the interests to have multiple presses on the next event!

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sopuli.xyz

Thanks for creating the project; it's a good way to help maintain a sense of community within the Fediverse.

Given that the vast majority of participants were from Lemmy or Piefed, next time it might also be worth making a separate post for it on Mastodon.

10

I did make a Mastodon post, but I don't really have a big following over there, so I guess discoverability can be a bit rubbish? Any tips on getting the word out over there are much appreciated!

6
piefed.social

Well, I'm feeling a bit Blue that my team lost, but we'll be back stronger than ever next season!

6
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lemmy.world

I tried telling you that blue was literally the color of sadness.

I also tried telling everyone that red would stick around and keep the timer going after everyone else buggered off.

I'm not always right.

5

Well since purple is red and blue combined, I'm pretty sure we both actually won and that's definitely NOT cope.

2

I thought this was really awesome. Fun custom events like this are a great method of promoting the fediverse since people have to join to participate.

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FactionMembersPresses% of members% of presses
Purple1249932.8%33.9%
Green1077928.3%27.1%
Blue947624.9%26.0%
Red533814.0%13.0%

Not saying it's unfair, buuut... I demand a rematch with presses and control time adjusted for population!

4

There was a "Button" on Reddit back in the day, similar concept but no teams and the timer reset to 1 minute instead of 15

3

There are four teams and one global timer. The timer counts down from 15 minutes. When it reaches 00:00, the game ends.

You sign up and choose your team color - your choices are either green or one of three other, less important colors.

There's a button to reset the timer to 15 minutes. Pressing it also changes the team who are claiming the time. The winning team will be whoever has ownership of the button for longest during the game, a bit like some Capture the Flag games.

You have just one press of the button available to you, ever (well, until Season 2). You can choose when to press it -- for example, I waited until someone else from another team pressed it, and immediately reset it for my team.

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lemmy.zip

Looks like the few seconds I took away from green came in clutch.

3

It was SO close - if there had been one more green player, I think we would've won

2
lemmy.ml

Loved the whole thing! Poor friend solace had a proposal at the beginning of the game that we should all abstain from clicking the button. I read it and decided to click anyway.

2

Glad you enjoyed it! I did think for a little bit at the start that no one was going to press it, then loads of people pressed it at once!

3

I can't see ml in the instance leaderboard... were there less than 7 of us?

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