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! ♥
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
Timelapses:
- First 24h
- 24h - 48h
- 48h - 72h
- Start to finish
Data:
- Pixel Placement Logfile (timestamps, usernames, coords, pallete index, no ip addresses) (42mb)
- Pallete Indexes (eg 0 = black, 1 = dark gray, etc)
- Final Canvas PNG
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
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.
bananada🇨🇦
My goal there was always Bananada. Someone else wrote the “for scale”, but I figured that was cool.
I do wish that whoever edited it near the end while I was sleeping had followed through and removed the “a” as well. I agree that this is the worst of both worlds.
Edit: I just noticed that the same guy who removed the bottom half of the d also added a pixel to one of the "n"s, so now they don’t even match. Ugh.
Oh, my bad. I don’t know if “da” was finished first and I just missed it or “for scale” was finished first, but I thought I saw “banana for scale” first and assumed the “da” was added later by somebody else.
I really whish someone would have vandalised the facist grey wolf logo on the left though…
Much white space
Very ponies
Wow
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.
You can get cleaner art if you just wipe out neighbours and replace with your own through bots. Working together and building together is on brand for Lemmy. I prefer human flawed art to robot perfect art.
The canvas started slightly too big, but the end goal was epic considering.
I’m willing to bet that more people would have contributed if they knew where the damn page was to begin with.(Such as myself). It wasn’t advertised very well.
My little frog survived!❤️
Yay!
I wanna search and find that little guy every time a new canvas is up now :3
(Do you know !goblincore@lemmy.blahaj.zone yet?)
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 😃
The only piece I made from scratch! I’m glad someone likes it ❤️
Definitely!
Thanks, that was interesting. Pretty different experience when there’s very little contention for space.
Hey, I remember this username! You were spending your pixels on grieving us…
Cause crypto is shit.
Well you’re kinda right, the “crypto” space as a whole is mostly driven by speculation and hype about price. We encourage neither, and focus on building private digital cash.
This is reflected in how our instance is run, zero user data is required for signup. To prevent bots we have a one time fee of about 1.5 USD. This also covers about half the expenses, the other half is provided by anonymous donations. The hosting is directly paid with Monero, making the instance and us a bit more independent from large corporations and especially payment providers.
Because you are here on lemmy, I figured you share some of those values, and that you might find use in private transactions. If you want become rich, you should look somewhere else.
It’s not crypto, it’s the people that use it
Understandable sentiment, I cant stand the crypto bros either. For me, it’s not about lambos or whatever, I just wanna be able to buy stuff without paypal, mastercard and anybody else tracking my every step.
On the canvas we made it very clear from the beginning to not damage surrounding art and pushed for a creative use of the area (besides the coins, but come on, almost everybody has some flag or logo on the canvas)
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.
Being able to actually differentiate things at a glance is nice too
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Thank you for creating it! Honestly, I enjoyed this one more than r/place.
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.
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 :))
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.
This looks so polite, like everyone is nice to others. Just like lemmy.
Look at that Canada finally got the maple leaf correct on their flag.
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. :)
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.
I like the native wheel with the pride maple leaf and Canada goose.
Also, way too many My Little Ponies lol
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 :)
Honestly, I find it wholesome that everyone got their little space to draw without much fighting. Perhaps making the canvas increase in size by request /user numbers to accommodate newcomers instead of forcing them to draw over someone else artwork is what would make this event unique compared to r/place.
Congrats everyone, the final canvas is awesome!!
Till next time!
