Lemmy Canvas 2023 has ended!

I didn’t even know it existed so they clearly need to advertise it better.
- Funny. I knew all about it and saw mentions and promotions leading up to it and during it multiple times. I'm guessing some time zone displacement or something? Maybe some community separations?
  
  Same here, I saw several announcements on Fediverse communities and elsewhere
- I posted here about this exact question already, but it was very difficult to get instance admin's attention 😅
  
  I’m an instance admin and I’ve never heard of this matrix room before. Did you try advertising it on the official matrix Space for Lemmy?
- Shit. I knew about it since day one. I guess I'm spending way too much time in the fediverse.

In hindsight a smaller canvas might have made it a bit busier, but I’ll tell you what: I’m impressed the effort has been translated over from rPlace. Run this one again in a year or so and I can imagine it being way more popular.
- Yeah, I'm seeing a lot of white. r/place loses all the white within minutes
  
  It's not like Reddit has over 1000x more users than Lemmy or anything
- I do plan on running one next year, possibly with a smaller canvas
  but with the amount of people interested after the event concluded, we might stick with the same size for next year, but who knows right now 😉
  Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (!canvas@toast.ooo) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!

Seems like a good balance-- big enough to not devolve into territory battles, small enough to look full in the end.
The fun thing is seeing what content is missing-- it seems like some fandoms never really migrated to the Fediverse. For me, a lack of Genshin stands out; anything this big usually gets a Fallen Qiqi out of principle.

TIL we had our own Place going on and I somehow missed it. 😭
- It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
  Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (!canvas@toast.ooo) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!

What?? When was this? Aw, man!
When's the next one?
- It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
  Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (!canvas@toast.ooo) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!
  
  Thanks! I subscribed, and will hopefully see it on the feed next time haha
  
  You can make a federated link by going !canvas@toast.ooo rather than posting the link, makes it much easier for users to join from LW!

Never really followed this closely over on reddit ... but it seems like people were happy to draw stuff they found fun ... which is cool! The My LIttle Pony stuff, the Blahaj shark, star trek, diagonal rainbow, Marx, NIN, Arch Linux, a few instance tags ... all up it seems fun and like it was a success! Kudos to the people that put this together!!

Ya this is the first post I've seen about it. I'm sad I missed it.
- For real what the shit man, I'm almost exclusively on lemmy nowadays and saw NOTHING about this until right now.
- It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
  Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (!canvas@toast.ooo) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!

I'm spewing i missed this. Next time I'll be available i hope

I was expecting the QR code to be a rick roll, but it wasn't. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined.
Edit: There were some Rick rolls in the first 24h, my day is slightly less ruined

TIL lemmy had a canvas

Carrot farmers: "It ain't much, but it's honest work"

Happy to see Canada finally figured out their flag

I'd like to thank the Germans for not covering up our N7 logo.

Wha? We had a canvas??

I think it went really well. Better than I expected.
As always, there was something new to think about, so even if I wasted a lot of time I still feel that I learned something from the experience.

I was trying to build our mascot all by myself but never got to 30% at best. Thanks to those who tried helping without any idea at first before completely screwing it up with some three-eyed monstrosity, lmao.
- I'm sorry you couldn't finish it, but...for whatever reason, this comment is the funniest thing I've seen and hardest I've laughed at anything all day, so thank you for that!

Thank you for organising this!

For those of you who didn't know about this, or did know and can't get enough community pixel art fun, there's an eternal canvas on https://pixelcanvas.io/ (beware: it's completely unmoderated, so prepare to see some unsavory stuff on there.
- I ran a fork of pxls for this event and they have their own instance at https://pxls.space, and compared to pixelcanvas.io, is moderated (if that's what you're looking for) :)
- Also for anyone unaware yourworldoftext.com and ourworldoftext.com are good canvas sites, the former having a rich history and many years of activity the latter being more featureful and open source

Kinda disappointed that Nyancat wasn't at the end of that rainbow.

So many my little pony drawings! It's always cool to see this, hoping for another one next year, when the community will be bigger!
- so many
  Too many.

Thank you for an eye-opening experience.

I love it, it's beautiful, I don't mind the white space, everyone had enough to do their own things, it was mostly peaceful, and I'm enjoying seeing my contribution (and being able to actually contribute in the first place).

Any specific reason for the special emphasis of the German flag?
- Germans always do this, on r/place, too. They do make sick pixel art over there, though
  
  I'm not German but I like it a lot. It was my favorite recurring thing on there
  
  It's more like 3 really wide pixels.

Im happy my lil BPO icon survived

I can believe that it's over already. I wanted to contribute but could never find the damn page...
- That seemed to be a major hiccup this time around, getting the word out there
  my plan for next year's is to give 30 days and 7 day notice before the event starts
  make sure you're subscribed to !canvas@toast.ooo & in the Matrix space so you don't miss it next year
  
  Ohhh man, I'm out of the loop, and I thought I was being helpful earlier, but I wasn't. What's the matrix space? It's not the federation?
  Am I getting this right that it's like self-hosted email, but for chat? Or do we have to pick an instance to host the chat log? How do people normally go about picking? How does matrix space tie into the canvas community on toast ooo?
  Surely there's a Eli5 page or community for this matrix-space? Does matrix space go by any other name?
  Thank you for your time! I already love where this is going, but don't wanna wet my socks just yet and sign up for many things willy nilly in case I lose track :0
  
  I'm confused by your link. It just leads me to a page to download yet another Lemmy app. I don't want to do that. I'm happy with Infinity and Voyager.

Me, looking at the 6 pixels i placed until i forget about the browser tab:
I did my part!

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- 💪💪💪

First I thought “oh, Nine Inch Nails is here”, but then I saw its subtitle “c/creampies”…

Wait we had a canvas and Germany dominated it somehow?!
- They always have been

Love seeing Konqi on there. What a cutie.

Why does Germany always do that line on these canvas things? Does somebody have a bot or something to help with it?
- PlaceDE is a huge community and there's probably a lot of bottled up desire to put the flag since it's socially frowned upon to hoist it outside of football cups.
  
  frowned upon
  Really? Why?

what's with the non human animals thing
- The furries, or the My Little Ponies?
  
  There's a lot of childrens cartoon type stuff, is it a joke or for real?
- QR code has a 42 on it and that video is number 42 in a series
- The non human animal thing is about the confusing attitudes & behaviors humans have towards them, and how they are unequally applied based on arbitrary traits or nebulous concepts. In other words, in consideration of those individuals who desire to not be used or exploited, why everyone currently exploiting them needs to consider changing those attitudes & behaviors.

This canvas kinda looks like prototypical Finns waiting for the bus
- A lot of snow between the pixels

Attends... il existe un canva Lemmy ??
Wait... there is a Lemmy canvas??
- It was very difficult notifying people of the event, but I am planning to run another one next year!
  Make sure you're in the Lemmy community (!canvas@toast.ooo) and the Matrix space so you don't miss it!

Wait, there’s an osu! community on lemmy?! Where?!
- There probably isn't but whenever a pixel canvas like r/place releases, an Osu logo spontaneously emerges.
  
  The osu logo was one of the first things on the canvas lol

Thanks for this, I had fun with it!

That is amazing. Great job everyone!

The small "LCP" I made to the right of the Aphex Twin logo survived yayyyy 😎

Disappointed to see just a copy of reddit. Whatever.
- There aren't any rules on the Fediverse. Ain't nobody stopping you from doing something you find new and exciting.
- Not a copy of Reddit. There seems to be a lack of "fuck u/Spez" art.
  
  The whole concept is a copy.

Next canvas there will be a fat flag of Russia and no one will stop me :)
- i never heard of russia, is it a dish or something?
- Let's find out.

GREEK FLAG 🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷🇬🇷💪💪💪💪🔵⚪🔵⚪ BEST FLAG