What do you guys think? It would definitely help bring more attention to Lemmy

  • jsveiga
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    872 years ago

    Some people just can’t let go. They break up, but stalk their ex on social media for the rest of their lives.

    • @mathlad@lemmy.worldOP
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      142 years ago

      😂 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

  • @Downcount@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    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

      • @Downcount@lemmy.world
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        42 years ago

        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”)

        web frontend

        You can emulate the rgb output:

        web frontend rgb emulated

        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:

        backside

        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:

        canvas

        This is, how it looks in the dark:

        Sorry for the bad image quality.

          • @Downcount@lemmy.world
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            12 years ago

            I say: Do it. Those boards come in different sizes, don’t cost a fortune AND (here comes the real awesome part) you can connect them to a big array.

            Animations also look real cool on it.

            If I had an Idea and the right arguments ('ello Wife 👋) I would love to build some sort of text-scrolling array of 3 or 4 those.

    • SpicyPeaSoup
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      182 years ago

      “Daddy, your Internet friends sure like drawing rocket ships a lot”.

      • @Downcount@lemmy.world
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        12 years ago

        Well. He’s old enough to know what those rockets are. Also: That thing was full of rockets on the first day he shared the address and I totally knew it was gonna happen ;)

        I’m more afraid of worse things strangers would be able to post directly to his wall.

  • AFK BRB Chocolate
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    392 years ago

    No. (1) We really don’t need to duplicate everything Reddit does and (2) there’s orders of magnitude fewer people here, so it would likely be lame.

    • @mathlad@lemmy.worldOP
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      52 years ago

      Yeah :( I just heard of r/place coming back this morning, haven’t been following anymore Reddit news since moving here

  • @dystop@lemmy.world
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    72 years ago

    And while we’re at it, adding 10million more users would be great too.

    But both of these don’t just happen.

    • @Contend6248@feddit.de
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      22 years ago

      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

  • @imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works
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    152 years ago

    Why not just use reddit’s place to bring attention to Lemmy?

    !place_join_lemmy@lemmy.world

    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.

    • @happyhippo@feddit.it
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      52 years ago

      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 👍🏻

  • @puppy@lemmy.world
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    282 years ago

    I am all for writing “Lemmy” in Reddit’s own r/place, to raise awareness. But trying to copy it in Lemmy? Nah.

    • Scrubbles
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      152 years ago

      No, traffic for reddit, even negative traffic, is still traffic. They are only doing this to draw people further into the walled garden

    • writeblankspace
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      12 years ago

      ooh we should do that, but o ly for people who still use reddit. No use rejoining

      • @DigitalWebSlinger@lemmy.world
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        112 years ago

        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”.

        • @Anders429@lemmy.world
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          12 years ago

          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.

        • 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.

  • Usernameblankface
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    132 years ago

    I think if a thing like Place were made for Lemmy, it would need to be so different to fit the values of the Fediverse that it would need a new name. Different rules, different way of interaction, different output.

  • @dQw4w9WgXcQ@lemm.ee
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    272 years ago

    /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.

  • Eddie
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    272 years ago

    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.

    • lemmyvore
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      22 years ago

      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.

  • @DrQuint@lemmy.world
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    202 years ago

    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.

  • Bilb!
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    502 years ago

    We should fully ignore any reddit publicity stunts