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An experiment has begun.
Thereās a button.
Thatās 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 wonāt last five seconds.
Either way, once itās over⦠itās 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 āwinnerā 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 thereās 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?
Iāve 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 Iāve ended up using it in a couple of places with things Iām working on, so will let you know when thats up!
I wish I didnāt have the memory of a goldfish because I would touch that button so good
Nice idea
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. Letās make this comeback happen!
Shades of Lost, with The Button needing to be pressed every 108 minutes ā¦
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
youāre 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 didnāt notice it š
me neither, what can i say iām prone to fidgeting
How does the verification work? Says it canāt 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 :)
Thanks for a deep check and fix, especially since this was probably due to my own filtering/bot blocking. Working now :)
Chatās paused! what happened?
Failsafe accidentally triggered, took me a sec to undo :)
It doesnāt like my hachyderm.io account.
Try now - have tweaked some stuff to see if its a masto authorised fetch thing going on.