A current state of Place on Reddit shows seems to seems to be signalling something to u/spez :)
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Kbin / Lemmy should have a R Place like event sometime
I'm not so sure. Always seemed like a gimmick to me. But I'm a grumpy sod.
I really enjoyed the 2022 one. Some of the smaller indie game alliances turned me on to some really cool games. And some of the artwork was legitimately beautiful. It had great twists, like doubling the canvas.
I was online when they changed it to white pixels only. Watching the board be erased was weirdly emotional. It was cool seeing the community naturally come together to delete it all from the inside out, in the shape of an expanding heart (roughly).
Not saying it’s not a gimmick or anything. Just a cool event that a lot of different communities have fun with
I can't imagine how something like this might exist solely to boost engagement and draw additional user accounts. I'm sure that would be incredibly shocking (or just obvious as hell with user numbers being boosted by numerous bot accounts, as well as increased user time on site). "Reddit migration? What migration? Just look at how many users are coming back."
It's comically tragic how utterly gullible people are in general.
A place clone would still be hosted on a single instance (presumably). It would be good if someone could develop a multi-user event that took advantage of the federated nature of kbin/lemmy or even the wider fediverse also. No idea what that could be though.
A webapp I guess
Maybe something could be organized on pixelcanvas.io?