All occurrences of Reddit place after the first were heavily botted. The first one was the best one IMO.

I think this speaks to a general difference between Reddit and Lemmy that we've all experienced: on Reddit, you can participate with a massive community, but your voice will likely be drowned out by everyone else plus all the bots. On Lemmy, you have to engage with a smaller community, but you can be sure your voice will be heard in that community.

With Reddit place, you probably couldn't point to the finished product and say "that pixel right there is one I placed" unless you were exceptionally lucky. With canvas, you absolutely can, but as you rightly pointed out the work itself is less impressive looking.

Yeah - one of the great things about place was the sheer scale of the community. If you have a broad range of even pretty obscure interests, there was a chance you could find most of them on there burried away. In the previous few iterations, I must've helped like twelve different little things ranging from super well known video game murals to tiny little pixel art for obscure Japanese artists.

In the '22 place, I helped lead a team to make a tiny 15×15 thing for our favourite kinda forgotten character from a game and it was an uphill battle but it was memorable. Here? That tiny 225 pixel face is the only rep for genshin impact and I miss the fun of planning something because it's just me. Sure I could make something big (and I have expanded it to include other characters) by myself...but like, I want to make stuff for other groups and fandoms too, and I'm the only person who'll do it.

Don't get me wrong, the canvas is fun and it's not really the hoster's fault, but it's missing the collaboration part

Tldr: 'better' is subjective

Shhh. Just let people enjoy things.

It's called Canvas

There is also a community for it :)

I like it less cluttered. Reddit's was always crowded and overwhelming, here you can actually see things.