I love this.

Very tempted to just photoshop more hats onto your image after that comment ;P

I vote for this one

I like it. It's simple, gets the idea across lol

For the record, I want your lemming as our mascot rather than our banner. It IS our mascot, as far as I'm concerned and I'll internet slap fight anyone who disagrees

If it matters, this was drawn in GIMP with a mouse, with a free maple leaf clipart thrown into the mix

That's a cool idea, the red leaf as a sort of mask. :)

Cute mascot or banner, the little notes off to the side make me laugh. Simple, easy to translate. I like Canada. Your fish are very big. Simple as.

Did we use the same pic?

I did this for best of lemmy. I just took the pic from wikipedia and put some crappy special effects on it. It's so ugly that I can't really stand to use it as an award, as a I originally intended.

Behold my absolutely no AI was used.

We're done here.

As long as no one else makes any submissions, this will win by default

Kingshit, absolute vibe. My vote lays here

File format: .webp
PNG or JPEG might work, but Lemmy seems to like .webp.

Dimensions: The image may be scaled differently by various Lemmy UIs, so there is no exact size requirement. Here are some current instance sidebar image sizes for reference:
sh.itjust.works: 1792 x 672
lemmy.world: 1863 x 713
lemmy.blahaj.zone: 1400 x 650
lemmy.dbzer0.com: 2048 x 640

Yes. What do you think of a little beret on the lemming's head ? :D)

But... aside from the sh.it presentation, I haven't really seen any posts or comments in French, so is the bilingual aspect actually a reality ?

Je peux aider, si vous voulez vous lancer... :)

That would be the absolute coolest thing!!! I'm not going to tell you to do it, because I recognize how much work it would be, but I will absolutely let you know that it's an incredibly interesting idea

Seconded. It's fine. It's a product of a particular moment, but it's only intended to be seen as a little side image for flair. I've thought about painting over it, but (1) it would look identical in situ and (2) the reactionaries would not care. They can complain about the details, but addressing those complaints doesn't work. The nature of bad faith is that there is no right answer.

Admittedly the case for keeping it is weaker than e.g. the Games community's "name any object in this image" sidebar. There, the abstraction is a feature, looking appropriate at a glance but devoid of specifics. It never needs to be updated with newer games or pruned of fallen creators. It's cover art impressionism. Here, though, it's just a cute rodent and some computer shit, as illustrated by a robot. People being mad at the robot is not reason enough to drop in any slapdash alternative as if the human wrist has magically imbued that with intent.

good lord, people hate on ai then submit dogshit for images and want people to do work for free, it’s hilarious:

ai art steals work from artists!!!!

ok then if any actual artists want to step up feel free to

crickets

i guess thanks to the anti ai people for giving another reason why ai art is useful even if it isn’t 100% accurate

this is my vote as well, yes it has issues but honestly it fits the theme and the other submissions I've seen haven't screamed itjust.works