Fediverse Canvas 2024 | Canada Discussion Thread (canvas.fediverse.events)

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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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[-] Undearius@lemmy.ca 16 points 1 month ago

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_ONE

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

I like it :)

[-] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 month ago

Good call, I'll edit it now

[-] mobilehugh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago

I love the fediverse. I live in Canada. I don't get what this is. Can someone do an ELI5?

[-] otter@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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 :)