It is happening! r/place goes out with a bang

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I wonder what the federated version of r/place would look like. It should not be too hard to create a collaborative pixel board and accept input from anywhere in the fediverse. But we would need to come up with some cool fedi spin. A chessboard, maybe, where every server has a square?
In the future, when the fediverse is more mature, it would be cool to create something.
- It should not be too hard to create a collaborative pixel board and accept input from anywhere in the fediverse.
  That's a super optimistic viewpoint. Handling that kind of stuff is actually a pretty challenging technical problem. Reddit themselves wrote a nice technical blog post about the how they built r/place and the challenges associated with it. Dealing with synchronization issues across federated instances makes the problem quite a bit more difficult.
  
  Huh, I didn’t know that the code base for r/place was open sourced.
  
  Thanks for the interesting article.
  There is no way the fediverse can reimplement r/place feature by feature. A federated Place would have to be different. It could be a month long project ora even permanent one, probably with a slower update rate.
  I like the idea of people seeing different things depending on the server they use and who that server federates with or blocks (https://lemmy.world/comment/1749093).
  But maybe the fediverse should look for its own thing rather than try to imitate.
- The way the Lemmy version of r/place would look like would depend on which other servers your server is federated with. It's a very postmodern approach where there is no single view of the thing for everyone
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  Link?
  
  pixelcanvas.io
  
  Very cool, but this is not federated.

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