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Canvas — The Fediverse’s r/place


2024 Concluded!


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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by grant@toast.ooo to c/canvas@toast.ooo
 

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!

Event date: August 4th (12:00am EST) - 6th (11:59pm EST)

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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[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 111 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] Autian@feddit.de 77 points 1 year 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.

[–] Setarkus@toast.ooo 40 points 1 year 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@lemmy.world 34 points 1 year ago (5 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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[–] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 14 points 1 year 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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[–] ech@lemm.ee 83 points 1 year 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.

[–] Rolder@reddthat.com 21 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] KiraKo@feddit.de 50 points 1 year 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~

[–] hungryphrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 49 points 1 year ago (3 children)
[–] seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 year ago (4 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@lemmy.world 26 points 1 year 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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[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There was a little. Like "banana for scale" became "bananada🇨🇦 for scale". Sadly it got half-reverted at the end, which is the worst of birth worlds imho. And I had to protect the Canada flag from some vandalizing. Things that were possible to change with small single-person edits happened, like mangling the text in the Stardew Valley banner, or the magnificent bastard who put one red pixel in the bottom right corner of The Blue Zone.

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[–] Samsy@lemmy.ml 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] itsmect@monero.town 37 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iByteABit@lemm.ee 33 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Damn, I missed it :/

Seems much nicer than the Reddit one

[–] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] greenbean@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] FireWire400@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year 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.

[–] Rin@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year 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. :)

[–] elementalguy2@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year 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.

[–] Resonosity@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 year 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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[–] peter_pangolin@toast.ooo 22 points 1 year ago

It's been real fun!

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Much white space

Very ponies

Wow

[–] Nath@aussie.zone 16 points 1 year 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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[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
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[–] haganbmj@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

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[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year 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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[–] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] HappySquid@feddit.ch 14 points 1 year 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).

[–] redhydride@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] grant@toast.ooo 14 points 1 year 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

[–] ArieTheFloof@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

07 to all you pixel placers

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[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] bquintb@midwest.social 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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!

[–] ShapesLemmyAccount@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago

Thank you for this!

[–] p0ppe@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

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

[–] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 11 points 1 year ago

Shout out to bronies for starting us out!

[–] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 11 points 1 year 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

[–] IYeetKids@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] iso@lemy.lol 10 points 1 year ago

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

[–] iloverocks@feddit.de 10 points 1 year ago

I count finish my librewolf icon

[–] Blastasaurus@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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

Also, way too many My Little Ponies lol

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