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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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