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Well, every year Theres a giant canvas to paint onto (similar to r/place) and since last year we have been holding our own version of the ESC called Lemmyvision.
There are also some other events that happen regularly, but those are more bound to single communities.
The only thing I've missed, like truly missed about old Reddit was Secret Santa. There was something so fun about it, and the system was so good. I know it's logistically challenging, even more so for a federated platform, but it was one of the things that made the site feel unique.
I completely forgot about that and had never participated. How did it operate?
Lemmyvision? Canvas? I think there are others too.
The yearly owl votes.
You mean the Superb Owl Owl of the Year.
we need more like the reddit pixel wars kinda thing, sponsors contests...
Canvas is Lemmy's version of the pixel wars thing, and it's happening soon. Applicable community: !canvas@toast.ooo
The lemmy.zip folks have also been running The Button: !thebutton@lemmy.zip
Be the change you wanna see and organize something? The communities are small though, and the fraction of interested people even smaller, probably good to take into account for the choice of what you want to organize.
As someone who helps organize events in person, it’s a lot of work, especially if it’s for free. While I appreciate seeing people with ideas, there needs to be more people that volunteer to help execute said ideas.
Not that I'm getting into it, but do you have ideas for fundraising for such organisational work?
I wouldn’t say I have the most experience in the fundraising part. It usually starts with getting a group of like-minded people together, pooling whatever money/resources you have together to kickstart some stuff. One you have a meetup/group with some traction then you start looking at what kind of grants are available in the area, since sometimes you have options. Going to local shops in your neighborhood that are willing to donate food/time also helps. Ultimately it comes down to how many people you know and how well you can network.
I guess it's one way to induce community engagement. Though an idea, don't overpost if you do it yourself, first for the risk of being ignored, and second to not burn through ideas too quickly.
Also, if you want ideas for filler community games, there's always some popping up at GOG's general forum.
A fun event I saw on a message board was a hotseat rimworld game. Someone started a world played for a bit then posted the save next person picked it up played it a bit and posted it.
It was pretty fun.
yea shit like this! Create lore..
I think this is what the gaming community should be about. Its always peeved me that the gaming community on here and reddit are always filled with slop news and 0 gaming content.
Well, what message board was that hot seat game save system on? I don't own that game, but you can always start something like that.
Screenshot or photography contests.
I like this one as it is also content creation and sharing. Maybe some themed contests? Like screenshots from horror games or nature photography.
I try to run discussions and challenges in some of my communities, the problems are just me getting busy and general forgetfulness.
The womens stuff community does a great job of keeping people engaged with daily topics and weekly chat threads, which other communities could take notes from.
Beyond that, better mod tools, public calendars to schedule events and puzzles would be great for larger communities.
Personally, I think Lemmy needs more 'best of' posts, or maybe just awareness of the best-of communities, to encourage engagement and showcase the community.
Have a Quake 3 Arena tournament.
Team Fortress 1 tourney.
I believe piefed has something like that? I know it has Events with dates/times/etc....
You can probably code something up with the API. Im not sure about the scheduling on lemmy but I think piefed is cron based?
We need something unique
Not sure if its the best client api but looks like theres a couple of APIs that work with lemmy: https://github.com/db0/pythorhead
Throw that onto cron/scheduler as a proof of concept and have at it.
i'm just the idea guy :)
Gonna be honest i dont care enough to make it. But gl!
You could be the finance guy instead of just an idea guy 😉
point me to some literature on how someone would do that please
I always liked the community events Reddit did. I wish we could do something like /r/place. I guess the next best (low-tech) thing is starting with a blank image file, adding a line, and uploading it for the next person to add a line, so on and so forth. Make some kind of collaborative artwork where everyone contributes a bit. Whether it becomes a graffiti wall, a collection of memes, or nothing but multi-colored dicks, I know I'd have fun.
No thanks, this is a link aggregator. Why will you people do anything except join a BB forum
I have some things planned for the community I manage once I get some more people participating.
The world cup is on right now, why not a mini 2x2 game or something? 1 vs 1, fuck make it pong!
!football@sopuli.xyz