- cross-posted to:
- fedditdk@feddit.dk
- cross-posted to:
- fedditdk@feddit.dk
the event has concluded! thank you all for participating!
this has been incredibly fun to run, as it was last year (although there was a bit more hiccups this time around)
⚠ Crossposters: link back to this post as it will be updated with more information ⚠
Event date: July 12th, 2024 @ 4am UTC til July 15th @ 4am UTC (72 hours) July 16th @ 4am UTC (72 hours + 24 hours) (it was extended due to a massive performance issue that caused major downtime)
Future events
I’m planning to host another one next year, so stay tuned 👀
If you have suggestions for canvas 2025 or any other events, post them in this post (thanks Ategon)
Supporting the project 💜💜💜
I have spent a little over 6 months completely rebuilding Canvas from the ground up to support future features, and i would love to work on more fediverse events
poster sales
posters of the final canvas will be sold, if you would like to stay updated with information on those, follow the Mastodon account or send an email to hello@sc07.company 💜
the shop site will also include stickers for the following instances:
- mastodon.world
- lemmy.world
- blahaj.zone
- toot.community
- toast.ooo
- Canvas 2024
✨ I wanted to have the shop setup before the event ending, but i couldn’t get it setup quick enough unfortunately
EDIT: Shop is now live!
direct donations
Donating via Stripe is the best way to donate directly
contributing to the code
canvas is open-source and is on a self-hosted gitlab instance at https://git.sc07.company/sc07/canvas
at time of writing; the gitlab server randomly restarts due to resource limits
Timelapses
i need to rewrite the timelapse script as some people pointed out some weirdness with the other ones (that’s also what delayed this post by almost 3 hours)
Data
Database dump: (48mb) https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2024/canvas-stripped.sql.txt
Contains pixel placements, canvas moderation actions, and palette colors no IP addresses
chat.fediverse.events
This will stay up as long as i can keep it running for, i’ll make some improvements eventually as well
tools (like a canvas atlas)
if anyone is wanting to build something for canvas, i’d be willing to host the project & give it a subdomain of .fediverse.events
just send me a matrix dm, a dm on discord (grahhnt) or an email hello@sc07.company
Special thanks
thank you to the moderators that helped me this year, even with how stressful it was 🔨
- Ategon (https://ategon.dev/)
- Sugar (sc07)
- Bigcheese
- TheWaffleLord
and the contributors to the code once the event started: 💻
- Ategon
- Marius
- soda_cans
and thank you, once again, for participating this year, i hope you enjoyed it as much as i did 💜
i’m going to now go enjoy my 21st 🥳🎉
- grant
Related links (edit 2025):
Thank you to everyone who was involved in the creation of this, it was a lot of fun and I can’t wait for the next one. It’s crazy how much nicer it was compared to the one from that other site. I placed a little doodle on the first day not expecting it to survive the night because it was in the path of another large piece. But when I checked the next day, someone had actually moved it to the side. That never would’ve happened on r/place.
It was similar for me! I was bored and put an UwU down on the canvas at the beginning of the event and it survived almost until the end! People kept repairing it too and put the rainbow road below without destroying it. In the end the space got repurposed for a cute pony which is for the best x3
I’m very surprised how long it lasted though! This community is so nice!Oh were you the person that made the little head above the nato flag?
No, but apparently this happened more than once lol
THIS is how I find out there was a canvas event… :(
Lots of people found about it this way last year as well.
I did find out a couple of days earlier, but for the love of God, I couldn’t make any sense out of what was happening. What is a canvas? How do people contribute to it? Why? For what reason? What’s its goal? What does it mean?
It’s r/place but on the fediverse!
Hello webizen, notifying you about the canvas so that it doesn’t happen again :)
noooooo i decided to check lemmy too late (thank you for notifying me though, appreciated)
Thank you so much for preparing and running an event like this, and happy birthday 🥳
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Many weebs have sleepless nights over their waifu’s feet
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Are you saying you were only 19~20 when you coded and deployed this? Holy shit, I have done web stuff before but I couldn’t get myself to do that even if someone paid me.
That was a truly amazing and fun event, even with the occasional hiccup and downtime phase.
Thanks for hosting and happy Birthday!
Oh hey, my poppy survived. And someone added a border. Neat.
Congratulations on an excellent event, and I look forward to next year’s. The codebase should be more settled then and hopefully you’ll manage to get a decent amount of sleep, unlike this time.
Also, happy birthday!
I was genuinely shocked at how well this went, especially considering it’s the first year. Reddit has done this three times now (four if you count the Adobe Create event) and this blew all of them out of the water.
This is the second year :)
Actually… https://toast.ooo/post/288913
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Sorry, to be honest I was just trying to keep it from getting buried so that it would remain fairly visible. But maybe you could have tried to message me with the template then when you’ve seen me blank it. I don’t know how large it was supposed to get.
It didn’t look like a heart, flower nor animal so I removed it.
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i still have some pixels from day 1 on there!!
It’s been a great experience for me! Thank you all for not destroying my small doodle. Looking forward to next year!
Glad My contributions made it into the final after all

Where?
Thank you so much to you for making this happen, thanks to the other contributors and mods for helping to keep things running, and to all the participants!
Yay I managed to sneak a little waldo at the last moment, thanks to the people in the chat who helped me, I was placing pixels with my phone on my way home.
Also, awesome work everybody!
(edit to fix grammar)
And here i was thinking there wasn’t an active Sounders instance here! Thanks for the work put in, the whole thing is neat!



















