I’ve got an exciting thing to announce today, Canvas — Lemmy’s r/Place!
We need to get our own traditions over here in the Threadiverse, why not start off with our own r/Place
This weekend, we will open up a canvas to all Lemmy users, each user will be able to place 1 pixel every minute. This event will last 72 hours, starting midnight EST on the 4th and ending at 11:59pm EST on the 6th
Cool, but I would argue that we should be creating our own traditions, not copying... *checks notes ...a sad ploy to increase MAU numbers.
I mean, back in the day, the games we used to play on forums were stuff like "Google Images Word Association" where someone would produce a random image, then someone else uses words that image made them think of, then search images based on that, then add another image to the thread, based on their word-search. Resulted in a lot of dumb funny shit.
Anyway... Great idea, but it pains me that it's just copying some bullshit from reddit that wasn't about community but rather a weak attempt to gin up engagement metrics.
Plenty of comments here critical of whether we want this here etc ... all I'll say is it's fucking awesome that you went ahead and made something on the fediverse!! Good for you ... I hope you have fun and it goes well!!!
A line of guillotines, one for every tech CEO Lemmy doesn't like (plus a couple of other random people specific instances have beef with, like the Dalai Lama)
If the plan was to provide evidence for the idea that Lemmy is a second-rate, tryhard copycat, well done!
This community is perfectly capable of generating its own traditions without trying to force it... and the fact that reddit recently tried to use r/Place to distract from the recent controversy makes this imitation that much sadder. If you're going to crib something, at least go for something that hasn't been touched for awhile.