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Canvas β€” The Fediverse’s r/place

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Canvas in 30 days πŸ‘€ (canvas.fediverse.events)
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turns out I did my math wrong, so it’s a little less than 30 days

July 12th, 2024 @ midnight EDT

https://canvas.fediverse.events

✨ this year’s event also supports the entire fediverse not just Lemmy!

(you have to be able to make/receive text posts, like mastodon, lemmy, pixelfed, etc) (peertube accounts will not work)

you can get update announcements on other fedi platforms with @canvas@fediverse.events link

chat about Canvas on Matrix or Discord (they’re bridged)

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[–] Syrc@lemmy.world 24 points 5 months ago

Nice! Hope this time the message reaches more people, last year I saw a lot of commenters that would’ve participated but didn’t know about it.

[–] otter@lemmy.ca 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can also share this in !fediverse@lemmy.world, there are a lot of people there :)

[–] grant@toast.ooo 13 points 5 months ago

you're right! totally forgot to post it there

here's the new post there: https://toast.ooo/post/3741538

[–] Stoneykins@mander.xyz 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Last year I was bothered by the randomness of fonts even in single words and sentences, and started that font guide thing. Immediately afterwards I tried to plan a nicer looking frame for it that can fit more, and have it for this event if anyone wants that or cares.

I also want to get anyone's opinions on changing letters to be better if you have ideas, because I'm sure I'm not the best at this but I want it to be appealing enough to use.

The main 2 things I tried to focus on is readability, and making sure each symbol can fit in 5x3 pixels.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 months ago

Looks great! You could probably even squeeze in a semicolon, square brackets, and curly braces.

[–] Quills@sh.itjust.works 13 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hooray, Spread it around everyone! :3

[–] sugar@toast.ooo 13 points 5 months ago

Super stoked

[–] deus@lemmy.world 11 points 5 months ago

Wait, it's been a year already since the last one? Damn

[–] lnxtx@feddit.nl 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

UTC: 2024-07-12 04:00:00

[–] NataliaTheDrowned2@kbin.run 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

UTC-2: 2024-07-12 02:00:00

(Seems like UTC-2 is my favorite time zone now even if I'm not there)

[–] hankskyjames777@kbin.run 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

UTC+8 (Philippine time, PHT): 2024-07-12 12:00:00 (PM)

[–] WeirdAlex03@lemmy.zip 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

How big will the canvas be this year? There was a fair bit of whitespace last year, but even with minimal notice limited only to Lemmy, it was almost the perfect amount for everything to fit without overlapping

[–] grant@toast.ooo 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it'll be 500x500 (from 1000x1000 last year)

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Can you elaborate on the decision to make it that much smaller?

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 7 points 5 months ago

Whooo I'm excited!

[–] the_dopamine_fiend@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Thank you! Been looking forward to another one.

[–] lazycouchpotato@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

Heck yes

[–] yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Great! How much time will it last?

[–] grant@toast.ooo 7 points 5 months ago

it'll be 72 hours (12th @ midnight - 14th @ 11:49pm)

completely forgot to include that in the post

[–] 9point6@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago

Woo! I can't believe it's nearly been a year already

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Yay, I'm so happy this is returning!

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

For the noobs, you should explain what this actually is. All I have is a name and a date. No deets.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Not sure if you ever worked it out but this is like r/place on reddit. There's a big board, and people can place one pixel at a time. Then you have to wait some amount of time until you can place another pixel. People work together to try to create art.

[–] RunningInRVA@lemmy.world 3 points 4 months ago

I eventually worked it out, but the point was to help others.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Anyone made a calendar invite

[–] grant@toast.ooo 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I added an .ics link to canvas.fediverse.events but it looks like that doesn't have great support :/

[–] ComeHereOrIHookYou@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

Alright! Lets go!