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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  • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
    78·
    1 year ago

    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.

    • Speiser0@feddit.deEnglish
      73·
      1 year ago

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  • KiraKo@feddit.deEnglish
    47·
    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~

  • itsmect@monero.townEnglish
    36·
    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!

  • Samsy@lemmy.ml
    35·
    1 year ago

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

    • Rose@lemmy.world
      5·
      1 year ago

      To be fair, our work was heavily griefed by a user running 6 accounts, then almost erased by a moderator before they changed their mind. Then there was more trolling and fighting in two places. Other than that, it was fun and significantly less chaotic than r/place.

  • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
    28·
    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.

  • Ben Hur Horse Race@lemm.ee
    22·
    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.

  • Rin@lemm.ee
    22·
    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. :)

  • Resonosity@lemmy.ca
    20·
    1 year ago

    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 :)

  • haganbmj@lemmy.ml
    191·
    1 year ago

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

        • itsmect@monero.town
          5·
          1 year ago

          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.

          • itsmect@monero.town
            4·
            1 year ago

            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)