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36 hours left! What are your favourite designs so far? (thelemmy.club)

submitted 3 weeks ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/canvas@toast.ooo

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[-] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 3 points 3 weeks ago

I think Ategon is engaging in bot activity.

The pattern located around Pixel (413,381) (some orange guy with a teal tongue and big eyes) is being created by a bunch of new accounts that were created today in the toast.ooo instance that have made zero comments, including:

QuiLL
toottheguy
piece_of_white_bead
honeyquill
magic
tuffmeep

The only account older than 36 hours I can see having contributed to this pattern is Ategon's account, who has placed a bunch of pixels. Since Ategon is a mod and developer of Canvas, I don't see a reasonable avenue other than stating this suspicion publicly.

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 8 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Hey those are various beetleball players (which is a game im a developer for). None of them have fediverse accounts since the game isnt part of the fediverse usually but you can join the discord to see activity relating to it (and each of the people you said there has a discord accoutn with a lot of history you can check) https://discord.com/invite/beetleball

thought it would be fun to do a design relating to the game so I announced it in the discord and some players signed up and have been constructing it. That design specifically is one of the icons for one of the beetles