The Button šŸ”˜

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https://thebutton.lemmy.zip/

An experiment has begun.

There’s a button.

That’s it. Just a button… and a timer counting down.

Anyone can press it. Everyone sees what happens. And every press changes things forever.

  • One shared button
  • No undo, no reset
  • A collective test of curiosity, restraint… or chaos

Some of you will hold the line. Some of you won’t last five seconds.

Either way, once it’s over… it’s over.

The Button

So the only question is:

Do you press it?


The Button is open to anyone on any federated platform, be that Lemmy, Piefed, Mastodon… even Stegodon!

Any user from any instance can sign in and press the button, but you only get one chance.

To add another layer to this, users can choose which faction to join, and the ā€œwinnerā€ is the faction that holds the button the longest amount of time before it eventually runs out.

Initially a press of the button resets the timer to 15 minutes - this may reduce if the game carries on for a while. At the time of this post, there is about 60 minutes until the button expires. The first button press will be available when there’s 15 minutes left, i.e. in 45 minutes, but you can sign up now to be ready!

There is also a permanent record of the first pusher :)

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My bet: the buttons dies after less than six hours, because most people on Lemmy are living in European or American timezones.

Get the Aussies in here

My respect to whoever keeps it going through the Pacifics



Eastern US timezones nightshifter reporting for duty!



Is there a Github for this and/or possibly a framework for the chat, leaderboard, and federated magic-link login?

I’ve thought about putting together some simple games with Fediverse login but never wanted to deal with the low level boilerplate stuff.

No, not yet, but I am actually pulling together something around the login as I’ve ended up using it in a couple of places with things I’m working on, so will let you know when thats up!



I wish I didn’t have the memory of a goldfish because I would touch that button so good



I am immortalized as press #69.

Without a doubt the most important press



Who pressed it first? I wanna press it so bad

There is a leaderboard on there with a bunch of stats including that one :)

Go on, press it.. you know you want to!



Team Red could really use some help. Let’s make this comeback happen!


Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes …


i saw red last on the leaderboard and decided to help them out but got distracted, my brain went wrong and i signed up for the blue team. to atone for this error i have resolved never to push the button

The blue team expresses its regrets but respects the decision taken by our team member. Sincerely, Calmblue75

you’re a fine ambassador for the blues, so i feel less bad that about two minutes after i wrote that i went back to have a look and pushed it by accident. chalk another one up for your guys

Thanks for the click, even if by accident!

He pressed it when it was blue

I didn’t notice it šŸ˜–

me neither, what can i say i’m prone to fidgeting








How does the verification work? Says it can’t verify my instance.

Failing on getting your user account, possibly because the connection gets rejected. Going to set a user agent ("TheButton/1.0") and try again.

Have now set a user agent so you should be good to try again :)

20:09:12 [WARNING] Failed to get NodeInfo for dubvee.org: Expecting value: line 1 column 1 (char 0)

20:09:19 [WARNING] Could not resolve AP profile for ptz@dubvee.org, rejecting

Thanks for a deep check and fix, especially since this was probably due to my own filtering/bot blocking. Working now :)





Chat’s paused! what happened?

Failsafe accidentally triggered, took me a sec to undo :)



It doesn’t like my hachyderm.io account.

Try now - have tweaked some stuff to see if its a masto authorised fetch thing going on.



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