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submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by grant@toast.ooo to c/canvas@toast.ooo

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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[-] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 114 points 2 years ago

Thank you for creating it! Honestly, I enjoyed this one more than r/place.

[-] Autian@feddit.de 82 points 2 years ago

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.

[-] Setarkus@toast.ooo 43 points 2 years ago

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 :))

[-] AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

I did most of the labyrinth! My original idea was that it would be more of an interstitial background linking other artwork together.

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[-] Deebster@lemmyrs.org 15 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] ech@lemm.ee 88 points 2 years 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.

[-] Rolder@reddthat.com 25 points 2 years ago

Being able to actually differentiate things at a glance is nice too

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[-] hungryphrog 55 points 2 years ago
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[-] KiraKo@feddit.de 52 points 2 years 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~

[-] seal_of_approval@sh.itjust.works 46 points 2 years ago

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

[-] Pandantic@lemmy.world 24 points 2 years ago

And all the cooperation that went into not messing up people’s art. I made a bisexual flag heart by the Aussie flag, and the bronies messaged me and said “we want to put something there but we will move your heart. Is that okay?” Which I thought was nice. Lots of people helping others too! Such a difference from the other place, and it reminds me why I moved to Lemmy.

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[-] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 13 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 41 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] itsmect@monero.town 39 points 2 years ago

It was an honor to place art with all of you <3 Thanks for bringing the fediverse community together with this event!

[-] iByteABit@lemm.ee 34 points 2 years ago

Damn, I missed it :/

Seems much nicer than the Reddit one

[-] Wenchette@lemmy.ml 18 points 2 years ago

Doesn't it? The Reddit one is always such a mess

[-] greenbean@lemmy.ml 21 points 2 years ago

Streamers ruined r/place. The first year was the only good one.

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[-] FireWire400@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years 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.

[-] JudahBenHur@lemm.ee 26 points 2 years 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 26 points 2 years 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. :)

[-] elementalguy2@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 years ago

Look at that Canada finally got the maple leaf correct on their flag.

[-] ICastFist@programming.dev 23 points 2 years ago

Much white space

Very ponies

Wow

[-] Nath@aussie.zone 16 points 2 years ago

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.

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[-] Resonosity@lemmy.ca 23 points 2 years 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 :)

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[-] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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[-] Quills@sh.itjust.works 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Congrats everyone, the final canvas is awesome!!
Till next time!

[-] haganbmj@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 years ago

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

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[-] peter_pangolin@toast.ooo 22 points 2 years ago

It's been real fun!

[-] yokonzo@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago

OH CRAP this was its own thing?!? Now I’m sad, I saw this and immediately assumed it was place so I ignored it 😥 that’ll teach me to read first

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[-] sanguinepar@lemmy.world 18 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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 😃

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[-] HappySquid@feddit.ch 16 points 2 years ago

I participated. It was awesome being able to make a difference just by spending some time on it. I never really felt that in Reddit (I didn't participate in the first one).

[-] redhydride@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 years ago

When did this happen?? I didn't see it at all

[-] grant@toast.ooo 15 points 2 years ago

it was really hard to get the word out for this event, but the next time this event happens I'll be announcing it on this community and in the Matrix space

[-] JesusTheCarpenter@feddit.uk 14 points 2 years ago

Shout out to bronies for starting us out!

[-] ShapesLemmyAccount@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I thought it was impossible to get something meaningful down but I eventually made something nice in the end!

[-] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 years ago

Thank you for this!

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 13 points 2 years ago

Seeing all the pixels come together and find their place with all the different design ideas going around is always fun to see.

[-] ArieTheFloof 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

07 to all you pixel placers

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[-] bquintb@midwest.social 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wasn't able to participate until today but I managed to place that small pencil in the bottom left corner. Was a fun little project. Can't wait until next time!

[-] Snipe_AT@lemmy.atay.dev 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Is there a higher quality version perchance?

edit: i now realize that my browser is doing some weird anti-aliasing

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[-] p0ppe@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Awesome experience and really showed what a great community the Lemmyverse is. Thanks for running it!

[-] IYeetKids@reddthat.com 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Cudos to the guy who completed the south park characters . I am sorry I couldn't help after coloring cartman

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[-] SamsonSeinfelder@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Sooooo proud of you guys. Most of us have only been here for like a month and asked you created that? Big props! <3

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