If things go bad theres a killswitch so that the entire feature can be disabled but have my fingers crossed everything works the first time. Did some testing but havent been able to simulate 300 actual users moving around

Random extra implemetation info.

When viewing the canvas you send the left right top bottom of your screen and zoom to the server. The server then sends back all cursors that are valid to be shown based on what you sent. On future times you ask the server it only sends back what changed (so a cursor that doesnt move doesnt get sent again and your local version knows its just still in its same position). That helps cut down more on bandwidth being sent around.

The map is split into various chunks of different sizes. When you send the position and zoom to the server it tries to fit you nicely into chunks and then the cursors it sends back are the cursors within those chunks. Then if somebody else asks for the cursors and they fit into the same chunks it sends back the same data to them due to it being cached for those chunks instead of computing it again which helps reduce server load.

theres some interpolation so you dont just teleport to the new position but yeah its still a bit choppy. Not much I can do else to smooth that out unless I want a bunch more bandwidth used and I think its decent enough

For people on PC its on by default when logged in and can be turned off with a toggle in the settings. When logged out or on mobile its off

Only the cursor is sent and there isnt a name shown currently unless you then place down a pixel and someone inspects that pixel to see who placed it

Theres various things that are part of the change so that its optimized. You can only see cursors of people in similar zoom levels for example as one of those. Exact cursor positions arent shared but people just see the cursor snapped to the pixel on the canvas its hovering over so that objects sent are smaller

you get a new pixel every 30 seconds that you can use the paint onto the canvas. And then everyone paints onto the same large canvas

If you make a design outside of the event you can turn it into a template to guide what color you have to place where in the event and you can then share that with other people to help out

yeah pretty much exactly that. It’s custom built 100% by our team with no external tools or anything (just a way to notify us using apis). it’s technically a separate running code since we can’t hook it into the base lemmy code that easily but acts the same way

Fair enough. Could you edit your crossposts to the new version of the post that has some clarifications just so there’s no misscommunication about this anywhere (you could put the original under a lemmy spoiler block which turns it into a dropdown for people that want to see original wording, details on how to do that here https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html. Or some other way you want)

Theres no LLM involved. This version of the post doesnt have the tldr to clarify some things so ill just repost my comment here

• Were not sending data to an LLM but the method is hidden so bad actors cant bypass it (you can disagree on that but the main issue is bots that are able to check blacklisted content and then just edit messages slightly to bypass it)
• The things that are checked are public (posts, comments, and dms that are also sent to other servers we dont control) and can be moderated on regardless of this. There isnt anything that breaches privacy
• Worst thing it can automatically do is temporarily remove a post/comment until an admin can approve or deny it just so its not there for people to run into (for example if someone spams slurs at someone else the someone else doesnt see that instead of it being there until an admin is able to come online)

For context this is for programming.dev specifially and affects our users rather than something on any fediverse software (figured I would mention that since it was cross posted into the main fediverse com with no context)

Reposting my answer to a comment on the main p.d post just so theres no confusion on this

• Processing is local. Were not sending data to an LLM but the method is hidden so bad actors cant bypass it
• The things that are checked are public (posts, comments, and dms that are also sent to other servers we dont control) and can be moderated on regardless of this. There isnt anything that breaches privacy
• Worst thing it can automatically do is temporarily remove a post/comment until an admin can approve or deny it just so its not there for people to run into (for example if someone spams slurs at someone else the someone else doesnt see that instead of it being there until an admin is able to come online)

comment was restored instantly since it shouldn’t have hit that message (ill probably try to get piss removed from the check). Just a way for admins to be able to check messages to prevent new accounts from instantly harassing people after sign up

if you mention a lemmy community in your post the post gets sent to show up in the lemmy community. Comments are automatically federated if you comment on a lemmy post.

lemmy posts are all federated to mastodon though if the servers know about each other

im saying the posts and content are fine, just dont swamp every other type of content with it. Give breathing room for other communities and other people in this community to be able to have things surface. You can still post things hence why you havent gotten any moderation action here past getting your flood of posts removed.

some users can like attribution to reddit a lot of others dont. Not everyone has the same opinion or is the same person

yeah but ideally it wouldnt be. People come here to escape reddit they dont want to be reminded of it. Just warning that if you post with it youre going to get a lot more complaint comments

4 posts were still left up from your batch after I cleaned up some to clean the home instance feeds and them the mods trimmed it down more (from 19 within the same small window of time). Just make sure to spread posts out so theyre not all posted in a chunk (and dont use camelcase for titles or have connections to reddit). This post is more than a day after the other ones so would be fine

that still automatically pulls the content even if its manually reviewed which makes it go out much faster than any people manually making memes would be able to post at

just space things out so youre not doing more than a couple a day here and dont just copy titles and stuff 1 for 1

Just a measure to make sure this stays a human zone and not bots spamming everyones post feeds for all the different communities without any sort of curation

When posting in communities in the instance please follow the automation guidelines (Section 2 and 3 match the most) https://legal.programming.dev/docs/automation-guidelines/

Notably the section that says 75% of recent content should be human created not automatic and accounts with automation should be marked as such

It tends to make each individual post do worse as well when theyre spammed like this at once

edit: Just saying this here for transparency, I removed half of the posts so that theres 9 now instead of 19. Leaving the rest this time but if theres more feed spam I would be reducing that to match the guidelines more instead of leaving a bunch like here (mods of the community can determine whether to handle this batch more but this clears up the general instance feeds)

outbound federation was down here for a bit. meme is kinda out of context now since it’s working again lol

the bots still a work in progress, the removal for now still removes it for local users before an admin can look at the content for communities it can’t be fully removed from (false alarms then get unremoved though)

Pangora should be back up atm if you wanted a reference to what it looks like. It’s something I just havent been maintaining and updating atm since ive been focusing on getting some other projects finished and lemmy has been good enough so far on this side