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Canvas 2026 is in 30 days!
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asudox lemmy.asudox.dev asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
Joined: 2025-01-18
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cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547

https://canvas.fediverse.events/

July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)

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 ✨

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Girl Named ZERO (she/her) piefed.zeromedia.vip guynamedzero@piefed.zeromedia.vip
Joined: 2025-09-19
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Hell yeah! I’m excited for some neat art!

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Dæmon S. catodon.rocks dsilverz@catodon.rocks
Joined: 2026-05-13
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!fediverse@lemmy.world I was going to do some quick art on that test canvas, I even logged in (kind of liked the federated login mechanism), but the canvas is limited to a 500x500px area (not boundary-less as most real-time collaborative drawing canvases out there), so it means one must draw on top of someone else's drawing in order to draw, and this is something I, a non-competitive person, definitely don't see myself doing because I know how much effort it took for them to do it, even if everything is inherently ephemeral in this existence. So much nice drawings there already.

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Havatra lemmy.zip Havatra@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-03-17
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!fediverse@lemmy.world I was going to do some quick art on that test canvas, I even logged in (kind of liked the federated login mechanism), but the canvas is limited to a 500x500px area (not boundary-less as most real-time collaborative drawing canvases out there), so it means one must draw on top of someone else's drawing in order to draw, and this is something I, a non-competitive person, de...

Unfortunately there are people whom grief, so you could put your efforts to maintaining the art that already exists

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Synapse lemmy.world synapse1278@lemmy.world
Joined: 2023-06-12
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Awesome! I need to hurry to create a pixel art for the Synthwave community!

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asudox lemmy.asudox.dev asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
Joined: 2025-01-18
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!fediverse@lemmy.world I was going to do some quick art on that test canvas, I even logged in (kind of liked the federated login mechanism), but the canvas is limited to a 500x500px area (not boundary-less as most real-time collaborative drawing canvases out there), so it means one must draw on top of someone else's drawing in order to draw, and this is something I, a non-competitive person, de...

The canvas can grow, iirc the operator of the canvas can enable multiple frames.

This, for example, was 2024's Canvas:

2025 fediverse canvas

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frongt lemmy.zip frongt@lemmy.zip
Joined: 2025-07-31
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!fediverse@lemmy.world I was going to do some quick art on that test canvas, I even logged in (kind of liked the federated login mechanism), but the canvas is limited to a 500x500px area (not boundary-less as most real-time collaborative drawing canvases out there), so it means one must draw on top of someone else's drawing in order to draw, and this is something I, a non-competitive person, de...

It's the test canvas.

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Grail multiverse.soulism.net Grail@multiverse.soulism.net
Joined: 2026-01-14
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I'm having trouble logging in. Is Piefed supported?

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asudox lemmy.asudox.dev asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev
Joined: 2025-01-18
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I'm having trouble logging in. Is Piefed supported?

Well, the way their login system works is by having a bot send you a DM, so it theoretically should work with any fediverse platform that supports DMs.

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grant 🍞 toast.ooo grant@toast.ooo
Joined: 2023-06-10
#10 · Quote Reply

Well, the way their login system works is by having a bot send you a DM, so it theoretically should work with any fediverse platform that supports DMs.

For anyone else experiencing issues with this, piefed has limitations on new actors sending DMs

If your piefed instance isn’t having anything pop up, make sure your admin marks the fediverse auth’s actor ( @auth@auth.fediverse.events ) as trusted through the admin panel

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