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

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[โ€“] jsveiga 112 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

๐Ÿ˜‚ 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Are you going to code it? You have like 10 hours to get it finished.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Haha ๐Ÿ˜‚ it's definitely a feat. I guess I posted this a bit late now

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it already that time of the year?

[โ€“] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[โ€“] jsveiga 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
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[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you use tabs or spaces?

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Come on man, you trying to start a war among programmers with that comment?

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Let's compromise and use both!

[โ€“] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago

We should fully ignore any reddit publicity stunts

[โ€“] [email protected] 39 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

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

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[โ€“] [email protected] 27 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 20 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] imaqtpie 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year 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 ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Instead of place, we can call it area.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or a den

It will be our 'Lemmy den'

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Cliff face. Lemmy cliff face.

[โ€“] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I agree, it should be something unique to make our own brand.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

And blackjack and Hookers....

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

No. We're still trying to find our own identity here which will take some time yet so it's to be expected that many things are done as they were on reddit. But the last thing we need to do now is go out of our way to imitate, as fun as r/place might have been and as edgy as some people may think it would be to spite reddit. We'll find our own things.

[โ€“] Blaze 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Seems a bit late to organize something now when /r/place will happen tomorrow

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

But both of these don't just happen.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Adding 10 million users tomorrow would be a disaster lol

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 year 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

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think you've confused shitty with awesome. How does that work? Like through a pi or something?

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That. Is. Awesome! Such a cool project. I have a pie hanging around somewheres, is love to try something like this.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year 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 ๐Ÿ‘‹) I would love to build some sort of text-scrolling array of 3 or 4 those.

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

help, I agree with both viewpoints

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