Canvas -- Lemmy's r/Place
canvas.toast.ooo
Place pixels with people to create art

Hello all, I’m sharing this here because I think it is a fun and interesting initiative that users might appreciate knowing about.

The instance https://toast.ooo/ is running an event similar to Reddit’s /r/place. Here you can find their post announcement. The canvas can be reached here: https://canvas.toast.ooo

If you are not familiar with /r/place: the idea is that every user gets to place pixels on a canvas. After placing a pixel, there is a 1 minute cool-down before you are able to place the next pixel.

To log-in, you fill-in your instance’s name and username, and you are sent a code as a private message which you then use to authenticate. So the method of authentication does not expose your username and password combination to a third party.

I find it cool how third-party events like this one can be integrated into the decentralized Lemmyverse without requiring active input from instance admins.

  • remer@lemmy.ml
    102·
    1 year ago

    Of course the most prominent thing is My Little Pony. Lemmy is infested with furries and bronies.

    • Salamander@mander.xyzOPM
      8·
      1 year ago

      Well they certainly seem organized! 😜

      I don’t like to be a cynic, and if those pixels really were placed there by a very organized community of fans of my little pony I think that’s actually very cool. But my suspicion is that someone used a bot to create that, and I’m not sure that they did it because they are fans of the cartoon. I’d love to see evidence of my suspicion being wrong though!

      • Salamander@mander.xyzOPM
        6·
        1 year ago

        Since I wrote that, I looked more into it and I no longer think that it is a bot. I think think that they really are some very dedicated My Little Pony fans. They did move super quickly so I think they are using some strategies such as opening a lot of different accounts in multiple container tabs (which is not against the rules). I now think that they might actually like the show and are doing this in good faith, and in that case I was being too cynical in my above comment. Good for them!

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    4·
    1 year ago

    Is our instance federating properly with toast.ooo? Just now I tried to look up a thread someone posted there but can’t pull it up here.

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    3·
    1 year ago

    Ooh!

    I know of some people from the Phoenotopia fandom that have been trying to organize painting pixel art of the main character Gail onto /r/place. Gonna go take their templates and try to do this on Canvas!

  • GlennMagusHarvey@mander.xyz
    1·
    1 year ago

    There’s a second, smaller Mander logo centered around 718, 897.

    Since the label on our bigger logo is being…partly underrun?, I’m adding a quick label to our smaller logo.

    If anyone’s around, you can come help out with the lettering. Just check the pixel art letters that are below and to the right.