EDIT: Now is the time to propose your templates! Pixelorama is a great free pixel art tool to use for it. Try to get your proposal in by July 16th so we can decide which to do! :)
The Canvas event is the Fediverse's take on r/place, I.E, a collaborative artwork where every participant can place down a single pixel every 30 seconds.
This limitation means the only way to assemble a larger piece of art is for people to come together in groups to collectively decide what they'll be drawing (usually with a pixel art template someone proposes), where it will be on the canvas, and communicate with other groups working on neighboring artworks so as not to impede their efforts, or even to negotiate mutual aid treaties to help maintain each other's art from potential hit-and-run attacks.
SLRPNK participated in 2024's Canvas event, which @Five@slrpnk.net documented in one of our previous Monthly Meta's. There's also a fun timelapse from last year's Canvas event here.
If there are any Solarpunks interested in participating this year, this thread might be a good place to organize and collaborate :)
The Canvas Event will take place at this link On July 17th, and run for 48 hours. Here is their official post about it for more details.
Front page says slrpnk.net has 180 users/day. Maybe 10% of them would do canvas for a while? I don't imagine even that many would commit an hour to obsessive pixel-clicking; maybe not even 100 times over the course of a day...
Hmmm, then maybe 900 pixels could be a reasonable template size; 30x30 or 25x36
I think it's best to be flexible - easy to scale up or down. It only takes a couple of people to get really excited, or to write a bot, and suddenly you get an enormous pixel budget. Start with something modest, then ramp up if there's a lot of activity.
My recollection is that lemmy canvas is less confrontational than reddit, so less need to reserve pixels for defense.