Should Lemmy consider implementing a collaborative pixel art feature similar to Reddit's r/place? (lemmy.world)

submitted 3 days ago by Teknevra@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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As many of you may know, Reddit's r/place is a popular social experiment that allows users to collaborate on a massive digital canvas by placing one pixel every few minutes. It fostered community engagement, creativity, and even some friendly competition between different groups.

Given Lemmy's focus on community-driven content and open-source principles, I'm curious about your thoughts on potentially introducing a similar feature:

Questions:

Do you think a Lemmy version of r/place would be beneficial for our platform? Why or why not?
How could such a feature be implemented in a way that aligns with Lemmy's values and decentralized structure?
What potential challenges or drawbacks do you foresee with introducing this type of collaborative art project?
If implemented, how often should such an event occur? Annually, quarterly, or as a one-time experiment?
What unique twists or improvements could Lemmy add to make this feature stand out from Reddit's version?

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[-] tomcatt360@lemmy.zip 85 points 3 days ago

We had something like that last year called canvas. It was great! !canvas@toast.ooo

[-] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 49 points 3 days ago

There already is one that's been going on a couple of years: https://sh.itjust.works/c/canvas@toast.ooo

[-] vodkasolution@feddit.it 14 points 3 days ago

Why did I not know it?! GREAT!

[-] kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 29 points 3 days ago

The folks that host the toast.ooo instance have run an event like that for us the past two summers. Check out !canvas@toast.ooo to see last year's result, and watch for news about the next one.

This reminds me that I need to plan some art for the next event!

[-] Sandbar_Trekker@lemmy.today 12 points 3 days ago

Didn't we already have one last year?

[-] Teknevra@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

If we did, I never noticed anything.

[-] theskyisfalling@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 3 days ago

Dunno how you missed it, it swamped /all for the last two years whilst active.

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 3 days ago

We sure did, others have already commented.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 days ago

Lemmy is nowhere near close to diverting developer resources to that.

[-] Microw@lemm.ee 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Which is why awesome people like @grant@toast.ooo do it instead

[-] thirtyfold8625@thebrainbin.org 9 points 2 days ago

I suspect the functionality you're interested in is supplied from https://ourworldoftext.com/home/ and/or https://ourworldofpixels.com/ so I don't think that putting effort into replicating that is the most important thing to work on.

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 6 points 3 days ago

We also have a slow version of this on one of the !onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone communities.

[-] yuri@pawb.social 3 points 2 days ago

also accessible at ツ.gay

[-] bitofarambler@crazypeople.online 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

yes, because it is fun, and we don't have to make it different just to be different.

this post was submitted on 01 Apr 2025

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