The Canvas event is the Fediverse’s take on the r/place event, I.E, a collaborative artwork where every participant can place down a single pixel every 30 seconds.
This limitation means the only way to assemble a larger piece of art is for people to come together in groups to collectively decide what they’ll be drawing, where it will be, and communicate with other groups working on neighboring artworks so as not to impede their efforts, or even to negotiate mutual aid treaties to help maintain each other’s art from potential hit-and-run attacks.
SLRPNK participated in 2024’s Canvas event, which @Five@slrpnk.net documented in one of our previous Monthly Meta’s.
If there are any Solarpunks interested in participating this year, this thread might be a good place to organize and collaborate :)
Hmmm, then maybe 900 pixels could be a reasonable template size; 30x30 or 25x36
I found that the Canvas event actually has stats available for how many pixels were placed by each instance in previous events, and how many users participated. In 2024, 13 of our users participated and placed 3100 pixels.
I think it’s best to be flexible - easy to scale up or down. It only takes a couple of people to get really excited, or to write a bot, and suddenly you get an enormous pixel budget. Start with something modest, then ramp up if there’s a lot of activity.
My recollection is that lemmy canvas is less confrontational than reddit, so less need to reserve pixels for defense.