LINK: https://canvas.fediverse.events/
Feel free to use this thread to discuss ideas and otherwise coordinate.
What is it?
You can sign in with almost any Fediverse account (ex. your lemmy account, mastodon account, etc.). Afterwards, you will be able to place a pixel every 30 seconds or so. By working together, people make (and break) different designs.
You shouldn’t need to give away your login information to authenticate. For me, the system asked for my instance and username, then sent me a message with the verification code.
Timeline: 72 hours
- Opens on July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC
- Closes on July 15th 2024 @ 4am UTC
What should we do?
I don’t think we have any templates yet, so you’re open to suggest a Canada wide design, or smaller specific ones. In the meantime, just have fun :)
You can see what other people are up to here: https://programming.dev/post/16720673
You can see last year’s design here: https://toast.ooo/post/288913
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Template on this comment here:
https://lemmy.ca/comment/10330307
edit:
We may need a better template than this one. It doesn’t quite align with the canvas, and the size might be too big to create (and defend)To make a template, find an image and paste the link to the image into the first template field in the settings window. You can upload it as a Lemmy comment if you want. After that you can fix the location and dimensions, before copying the link from the address bar for sharing
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Template LinkYou can paste this in the settings to make things easier.
For reference, here are the proportions:
(Source)Might want to widen the template by 1px so that the tip of the leaf is not between two pixels.
Might want to find a good pixel maple leaf to base the flag dimensions off of. I couldn’t find one centered on a pixel, but it’s a start:
https://www.pngkey.com/png/full/338-3380342_canada-maple-leaf-maple-leaf-pixel-art.png
I personally think just the rectangular flag is a bit boring, so I did this little mockup
Here is the template on the canvas.
https://canvas.fediverse.events/#x=472&y=73&zoom=9&tu=https%3A%2F%2Flemmy.ca%2Fpictrs%2Fimage%2F165e6e23-1abc-4719-9e41-b8e3ce743c7f.png&tw=64&tx=431&ty=41&ts=ONE_TO_ONEI like it :)
Are we completely switching to this design, or are we placing this on top of the larger rectangular flag? Either way, you might want to consider editing your comment in the Canvas Group Finder thread to include the new template.
Good call, I’ll edit it now
I love the fediverse. I live in Canada. I don’t get what this is. Can someone do an ELI5?
It’s inspired by a game / social experiment Reddit did a few years ago, where every account can only place one pixel every now and then. Over time, people can work together to make different designs.
Often we had a Canadian flag, and various symbols for different Canadian provinces, schools, or sports teams.
That’s the idea here, only this one is open to the entire fediverse. I imagine it didn’t get much advertising prior to the launch, and so it’s quieter than the usual activity on the fediverse.
Right now I think we’re looking for a design template to follow, so that we can work on something more effectively :)
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