Canvas is available for Lemmy!
This is similar to reddit's /r/place. Each user gets to place a pixel on a canvas. The pixels are refreshed every 30 seconds.
The website with the canvas is: https://canvas.toast.ooo/
To log-in, you simply provide your instance's name and your username, and you get a code to log-in.
I have made a template for making an XNO flag. You can reach it by clicking here.
In the settings there is a button that allows you to toggle the tample on/off. You can use that button to make sure that you are placing the pixel in an unoccupied spot.
If you shift + click on a pixel, you can see who placed that pixel, and you can also see their faction. I think the faction is a way for users to label themselves as part of a team, but it doesn't have any special additional mechanic associated with it.
very cool! how long does this last? it's charging up an idea i've had for a while though, basically a permanent nano canvas where each pixel could be claimed by an address and balance. and then if you take someone's pixel, there could be a bidding war or something like that. you get your nano back + some extra and then they claim your pixel for themselves. so i guess it would be some type of free market canvas? lots of possibilities there.
basically evolve the OG version https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage
One scary thing about the nano-based canvas is that maybe at some point the person hosting that doesn't want to host it anymore. But every person who owns a pixel paid for it.... They didn't pay the person hosting the site, so it is not fair to ask that the site hoster pays them back. What happens then?
What I'm thinking is that it might be possible to do this but using NFTs. So, let's say that you have a 100 x 100 canvas, and 10,000 NFTs, each one corresponding to a pixel. So the NFTs map to the list of pixels Canvas(0,0), Canvas(1,0), Canvas(2,0).... and the owner of the NFT gets to pick the color. Since these NFTs live on the blockchain, there is no single person 'hosting' the canvas. Anyone can set up an instance and display the canvas by pulling the information from the NFTs.
I haven't studied deeply the NFTs, so I don't know how easy it is to associate a label with the color to them.
Yeah, still hashing out the details, my go-to question is: but what if i died? That implementation could make sense and along the train of thought I have been on previously. Other things I've contemplated is having these 100x100s as time-bound, so you would periodically refresh them and they would eventually get concretized as a singular entity. Thoughts I've had today, could you track & sell the rights to this, is that even a good idea,+ and what's the resolution of custom clothing printing? Ultimately I'm coming from the direction of how does a creation inspire communities to create more and sustain it/themselves. I don't really care that much personally about making a large profit, not that there's anything bad with that, I just get more personal fulfillment from the former goal.