What do you guys think? It would definitely help bring more attention to Lemmy
And while we’re at it, adding 10million more users would be great too.
But both of these don’t just happen.
Thank god the trash tier users aren’t as appearent here, i was leaving Reddit a couple of times before, that wasn’t a community, that was pure toxicity
Adding 10 million users tomorrow would be a disaster lol
help, I agree with both viewpoints
Fuck that
Are you going to code it? You have like 10 hours to get it finished.
Haha 😂 it’s definitely a feat. I guess I posted this a bit late now
Is it already that time of the year?
Some people just can’t let go. They break up, but stalk their ex on social media for the rest of their lives.
😂 it’s just fun following the drama and how its collapse will unfold, especially with how comically villainous Reddit has been these past weeks. It’s almost a source of entertainment
We’ll figure out something original. For now, I’d first like the have basic quality of life features, things like polls and stuff like that.
Seems a bit late to organize something now when /r/place will happen tomorrow
Yeah :( I just heard of r/place coming back this morning, haven’t been following anymore Reddit news since moving here
Ok, I’ll start.
.Did you use tabs or spaces?
Come on man, you trying to start a war among programmers with that comment?
Let’s compromise and use both!
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Instead of place, we can call it area. Or venue.
Or a den
It will be our ‘Lemmy den’
Cliff face. Lemmy cliff face.
Why not just use reddit’s place to bring attention to Lemmy?
I’m baffled by the pushback from some users, I guess people still have PTSD from reddit. From a Lemmy-centric mindset, participating in this is an easy layup to grow the userbase. But we don’t have much time and we don’t have many users so it’ll probably have to be modest.
Because most of us have prolly deleted their account and have no intention to cause an upwards blip in spez’s usage stats.
Let’s produce some content here 👍🏻
I did a shitty version (64x64, shitty color picker). But it sends every change to a 64x64 led matrix.
Also it’s in my sons room, so NO, you won’t get the url XD
I think you’ve confused shitty with awesome. How does that work? Like through a pi or something?
At least it was a fun father-son-project. I wrote the server part, he the client part.
First there is the web frontend (sending click requests to a script that saves the clicked pixel in a database, heartbeating to a script to refresh the “image”)
You can emulate the rgb output:
Then there is the 64x64 RGB matrix and a raspy connected to it. It is quite hollow on it’s back, giving the raspy some place to hide:
The code on the raspy connects to the server and refreshes it’s image, if a change happened.
I also “hid” the matrix inside a canvas frame, to help diffusing the single RGBs a bit:
This is, how it looks in the dark:
Sorry for the bad image quality.
“Daddy, your Internet friends sure like drawing rocket ships a lot”.
/r/place is impressive since we can see how incredibly many people get together to create something, and it lives with tons of active users.
Even though lemmy is rising, I don’t think lemmy has nearly enough users to actually make a copy of the concept.
But can we be a bit more creative? Lemmy isn’t Reddit - it would be great if we could make something original instead.
I am all for writing “Lemmy” in Reddit’s own r/place, to raise awareness. But trying to copy it in Lemmy? Nah.
No, traffic for reddit, even negative traffic, is still traffic. They are only doing this to draw people further into the walled garden
ooh we should do that, but o ly for people who still use reddit. No use rejoining
I’ve seen a few lemmy discussions on this so far, and honestly the best option I’ve seen is to just ignore Place.
To participate, even to advertise lemmy, we would have to engage, which is what reddit is looking for. Even then, admins will likely take the reigns and prevent any serious effort from being fruitful. There’s just not that much benefit and plenty of downside.
It’s attention seeking behavior. Ignoring it and letting the event fall flat (or at least as flat as is in our power) would send so much more of a message than “join lemmy” or “fuck spez”.
Good luck “letting the event fall flat” when 99% of users are still on Reddit. Advertising lemmy on r/place seems more helpful towards the migration.
Exactly. This event is an effort for them to prove that the platform is just as active and enjoyable as it was before the chaos.
No. We’re still trying to find our own identity here which will take some time yet so it’s to be expected that many things are done as they were on reddit. But the last thing we need to do now is go out of our way to imitate, as fun as r/place might have been and as edgy as some people may think it would be to spite reddit. We’ll find our own things.
If there’s a 14-year-old coding prodigy who can do something truly amazing in less than 24 hours, we need you now more than ever.
It’s not the code as much as the infrastructure + testing that would not be realistic to put together in such a short time.
I’m curious in fact to see if Reddit can still manage their own r/place this time around, given the turnover and people who left.
