• static_motion
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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.