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

  • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
    617·
    1 year ago

    Cool, but I would argue that we should be creating our own traditions, not copying… *checks notes …a sad ploy to increase MAU numbers.

    I mean, back in the day, the games we used to play on forums were stuff like “Google Images Word Association” where someone would produce a random image, then someone else uses words that image made them think of, then search images based on that, then add another image to the thread, based on their word-search. Resulted in a lot of dumb funny shit.

    Anyway… Great idea, but it pains me that it’s just copying some bullshit from reddit that wasn’t about community but rather a weak attempt to gin up engagement metrics.

      • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
        142·
        1 year ago

        Not trying to be down on anyone’s good time, I hope folks have fun with it. It’s just my personal opinion on the matter, that it’s better to create our own culture than grandfather in “culture” that wasn’t actually culture but corporate nonsense masquerading as “culture.”

        Put it up there with all the people that complain that using Lemmy is “too hard” because it’s not enough like Reddit. It’s a bunch of “well corporations did this, why can’t you?” type feeling. I just don’t like that feeling, I’d rather have a community actually grow organically without corporate influence.

        To quote Boo Boo Bear:

        corporations rob us of our dignity and independence

        When we rely on them for everything, even our definitions of what “culture” is, we have lost.

          • Hot Saucerman@lemmy.mlEnglish
            71·
            1 year ago

            Thanks for understanding. I’ve been quite enjoying the content on Lemmy as well. I’m just hoping for more creativity, because I’m positive there’s people out here on Lemmy with brilliant social game ideas, they just haven’t had the exposure they need yet for it to become Fediverse lore.

        • blanketswithsmallpox@kbin.social
          7·
          1 year ago

          Almost everything on the internet is just imitation.

          Community made canvases sound great for almost any major website to me. I’m down for it.