i’m the canvas guy (!canvas@toast.ooo)
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14869203
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Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas that runs for 48 hours starting July 18th, 2026 at 4am UTC. This is an event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing anyone with an account with in the Fediverse to participate! More details (like source code and community links) can be found on the website
cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14869203
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Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas that runs for 48 hours starting July 18th, 2026 at 4am UTC. This is an event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing anyone with an account with in the Fediverse to participate! More details (like source code and community links) can be found on the website
Canvas is a collaborative pixel canvas that runs for 48 hours starting July 18th, 2026 at 4am UTC. This is an event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing anyone with an account with in the Fediverse to participate! More details (like source code and community links) can be found on the website
If you’re on a piefed instance, or are administrating one, make sure your instance is able to receive Fediverse Auth messages
Piefed defaulty rejects DMs from new actors, but this can be fixed in the admin interface by marking auth.fediverse.events as a trusted instance
Edit: trusted actor -> trusted instance
You can also test if your instance works by clicking on the emojis on the Canvas page ✨
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year’s Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you’re a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨
Canvas 2026 is in roughly 60 days!
Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time
Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year’s Canvas was!
If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you’re a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀
Available in 24" x 24" (61cm x 61cm – shown) and 20" x 20" (50.8cm x 50.8cm)
Only available until August 1st, 2025 (will also ship out then) // ships from the US
Shipping posters internationally does get a bit pricey, but if you buy multiple posters I can put them in the same tube (if people want to pool together an order lol)
if you’d still like to support the project you can always tip directly 💜
(for crossposts:)
Canvas is a yearly event for the Fediverse were people can collaboratively place pixels to make an art piece! 2025 has already concluded, but if you’d like to be in the know for next years event, follow the Lemmy community ( !canvas@toast.ooo ) or follow the Mastodon account @canvas@fediverse.events
The event has concluded!
Canvas 2025 ran from July 12th @ 4am UTC to July 14th @ 4am UTC
We’ll come back sometime next year, stay tuned! Leave feedback and recommendations in this thread
You can leave tips for the staff @ https://tips.sc07.com/
Poster prints can also be purchased here
Poster prints will only be sold until August 1st, 2025
Canvas is open source! You can find the source code and contribute at https://sc07.dev/sc07/canvas
Currently not available, but they will be posted in the community and on mastodon and also finally on sc07.tv
Edit: They’re live on sc07.tv!
A full database dump can be found here: (26mb) https://cdn.sc07.company/canvas/2025/database.sql.txt
Thank you to all of the moderators that helped make this happen!
thank you all, as always, for participating in the event, it means a lot to me 💜 - grant (https://grants.cafe/@grant / @grant@toast.ooo)
Enjoyed the event? https://tips.sc07.com/
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)
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)
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
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:
✨ 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!
Donating via Stripe is the best way to donate directly
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
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)
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
This will stay up as long as i can keep it running for, i’ll make some improvements eventually as well
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
thank you to the moderators that helped me this year, even with how stressful it was 🔨
and the contributors to the code once the event started: 💻
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 🥳🎉
Related links (edit 2025):
Thanks for joining in! The canvas is now finished!
I’m going to be leaving the canvas up and read-only for a couple days, but not too long.
This was incredibly fun to host, thank you all for participating! ♥
Event date: August 4th (12:00am EST) - 6th (11:59pm EST)
I’d love to make this a yearly event. Expanding from just Lemmy to the entirety of the fediverse aswell!
I’ll reuse this Lemmy community & the Matrix space for that event
If you have suggestions for future events, post them in a comment on this post, each suggestion as it’s own comment so people can vote on them
