cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/232185
Hey all,
I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!
We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place
This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th
Some instances that are joining in:
Join the Lemmy Community
!canvas@toast.ooo
Join the Matrix Space
#lemmy-canvas:matrix.org
Place is fun. Glad to see that it’s going to happen here too.
It seems there is a fair number of people wanting to “not copy Reddit.” But it seems they forget that the whole reason they are on Lemmy/Kbin is to find an alternative to Reddit, that basically works like Reddit. The sentiment of “don’t do what Reddit does” should apply only to the shifty stuff Reddit does, like cutting off API access to good developers.
as long as the “Fuck Spez” tags are kept to a minimum
I agree. Place is an awesome idea and its inventor doesn’t even work for reddit anymore. The idea extends beyond Reddit, so why not have a big canvas for lemmy?
As much as a lot of people want to shit on Reddit (myself included), they did do some things right over the years.
We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with another platform’s tradition
Does it count as a new tradition if we don’t poop all weekend?
Were you not amused by Poop and Beans??
couldn’t be worse than having cloudflare verification on a can of beans
Don’t knock our fucking traditions, Carl
Have you ever read a single history book? Humans are not very creative. All traditions are copying the tribe next door’s tradition with a little twist. That’s just how culture works.
Joining would be neat but… how?
angry developers can do anything
If we want to start our own traditions, why the hell are we copying reddit yet again?
So we can write fuck spez, but this time on Lemmy.
What’s the downside? Just something fun to do
If you thought Reddit had a lot of fuck spez spam on place, wait till you see lemmys version.
I’d really prefer if we do our own thing and let Reddit slowly fade into obscurity.
Sounds fun. Hopefully we can get a bunch of niche communities to show their love.
What does it mean for an instance to “join in”? Can users not participate unless their instance has joined?
How does this work? At what URL will this be hosted at?
why
Why not? Its fun
Because fuck spez that’s why
c/Place
Why copy one of the lamest things about Reddit
what was cooler? (a serious question)
you know what would be cool? if we took that site 4chan used to draw swastikas on and make it a fomo event to drive site traffic metrics. wouldn’t that be cool?
Why?