• @[email protected]
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    592 years ago

    I don’t see the need to mention reddit. It’s like saying my current bf is better than my ex while spying on the ex.

    Have a closure. Move on.

    • RxBrad
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      132 years ago

      The Reddit mentions right now are downright tame compared to the weekend the API changes went into effect. That was out of control.

      But yes, I totally agree. Move on.

    • @[email protected]
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      212 years ago

      Right? If there’s one thing that I dislike about lemmy, it’s how often they mention reddit. Just stop, it’s getting annoying

      • zinger
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        62 years ago

        100% agree. Who cares if it’s “better” than Reddit (what does that even mean)? Saying that just sounds childish.

      • PupBiru
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        102 years ago

        i mean… to deny the similarities in the platform is kinda ridiculous… i’d go so far as to say that lemmy/kbin probably wouldn’t have the format it does without reddit being like it is. there’s a direct relationship, whether we like it or not

  • @[email protected]
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    1212 years ago

    I’m gonna be honest here: It’s not.

    This is like someone posting “homemade is so much better than eating out” and then they post a picture of a pickles, spam and mayo sandwich.

    I mean sure, homemade can be better, but what you just posted isn’t. I’m sure you like it, though. But it doesn’t have general appeal at all.

    Look, there’s a reason most of the canvas is blank.

    But you probably like the lack of activity.

    So enjoy it, I guess.

    • @[email protected]
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      62 years ago

      Btw, have you checked canvas recently?

      I can imagine some humble pie needs to be consumed.

    • @[email protected]
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      492 years ago

      All occurrences of Reddit place after the first were heavily botted. The first one was the best one IMO.

      I think this speaks to a general difference between Reddit and Lemmy that we’ve all experienced: on Reddit, you can participate with a massive community, but your voice will likely be drowned out by everyone else plus all the bots. On Lemmy, you have to engage with a smaller community, but you can be sure your voice will be heard in that community.

      With Reddit place, you probably couldn’t point to the finished product and say “that pixel right there is one I placed” unless you were exceptionally lucky. With canvas, you absolutely can, but as you rightly pointed out the work itself is less impressive looking.

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        The first one was botted as well near the end. I know because I wrote a tool to do it in about an hour using my private bot farm I had been building for years. I never gave it to anyone else because it was sloppy and integrated with the bot creation tools I had, and that would have revealed all of the tricks I used to create and protect the bot horde. But I used it myself, and I assume I was far from the only one with the same idea.

        The interesting thing is that reddit basically condoned it. They are usually pretty decent at detecting bots if you don’t take measures to make them look human, but with place (at least the first time) they seemed to intentionally have that functionality disabled. I kind of assumed that they doing it specifically as a bit detection scheme, but they never cleaned house afterwards like I expected.

    • @[email protected]
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      262 years ago

      Yeah - one of the great things about place was the sheer scale of the community. If you have a broad range of even pretty obscure interests, there was a chance you could find most of them on there burried away. In the previous few iterations, I must’ve helped like twelve different little things ranging from super well known video game murals to tiny little pixel art for obscure Japanese artists.

      In the '22 place, I helped lead a team to make a tiny 15×15 thing for our favourite kinda forgotten character from a game and it was an uphill battle but it was memorable. Here? That tiny 225 pixel face is the only rep for genshin impact and I miss the fun of planning something because it’s just me. Sure I could make something big (and I have expanded it to include other characters) by myself…but like, I want to make stuff for other groups and fandoms too, and I’m the only person who’ll do it.

      Don’t get me wrong, the canvas is fun and it’s not really the hoster’s fault, but it’s missing the collaboration part

      • @[email protected]
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        42 years ago

        The amongi hidden everywhere along with blue corner are my two favorite parts of Reddit’s Place.

  • @[email protected]
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    202 years ago

    When Place first happened it was such a phenomenon, I think nothing that tries to copy it will ever come close.

    Even Reddit’s follow-ups have been much less fun than the first one.

    • PupBiru
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      “even”… i think reddit’s follow ups were least likely to succeed because they were the least organic!

      place was special (at first) because it was a bunch of people with no time to plan and prepare… it was humans doing human things with all the limitations and creativity that came with that

      other iterations of place were bots and pre-planned “stake our claim” rather than making something interesting and different… it was kinda all just the same as the last one but with subtle “meme of the moment” tweaks

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      I wasn’t around for 2017 but 2022 was the most fun I’ve had with internet strangers in years, if not ever. Also no one was ready for the expanding canvas and everyone scrambling over it was beautiful.

  • @[email protected]
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    102 years ago

    It might be if I didn’t have to download a new app to access it… (At least on an android phone)

    • @[email protected]
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      I was able to sign in through the sync app on Android. It loaded up pretty well and I placed some stuff last night. Never had to download an app. What are you using that made you need another one?

    • athos77
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      I like it less cluttered. Reddit’s was always crowded and overwhelming, here you can actually see things.

  • Marxine
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    Based Konqi! Best FOSS mascot alongside Krita 's Kiki!

    Edit: Fixed autocorrect’s mischief on Krita’s name

    • janWilejan
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      42 years ago

      “Oriya’s Kiki”? Do you mean Kiki the Cyber Squirrel, mascot of Krita, designed by Tyson Tan?
      Who’s Oriya?

      • Marxine
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        12 years ago

        It was dumb autocorrector moment, I did mean Krita’s Kiki indeed, thanks for the heads up :')

        • Marxine
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          22 years ago

          Almost, it was autocorrector changing stuff on its own and me being too sleepy to have noticed. For some reason Oriya is a word for it, but Krita isn’t.

  • @[email protected]
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    1122 years ago

    In some ways maybe but the fact there is enough space for everyone and people don’t have to fight for it kinda defeats the most interesting aspects of Place if you ask me.

    • whou
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      402 years ago

      I strongly disagree. When everybody has a space and opportunity to draw is when it’s the most fun :)

      Otherwise, it just turns into a toxic and unpleasant experience

    • Annoyed_🦀
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      52 years ago

      Most interesting, yes, but it’s mostly big sub bullying small sub, so this one is staying closer to the concept.

    • WtfEvenIsExistence3️
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      472 years ago

      Meh it’s better this way. Maybe reduce the canvas a bit, but we don’t need this to be another battle of defacing other’s works.

      Also, if we can get more instances to be involved, that’d be better. I don’t want a canvas that one person can decide to censor, but there also needs to be some form of moderation to stop hateful messages. Maybe we can get a “lemmy council” consisting of owners of big instances to decide what constitude hate messages.

      • @[email protected]
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        62 years ago

        Council isn’t the word I’d choose,but I feel you. Maybe “united canvas admins,” to show emphasize the federated nature?

  • NPC
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    92 years ago

    God dammit, now I remember pixel dungeon exists and will be spending too much time playing that again…