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The Button Has Ended (thebutton.lemmy.zip)
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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 "winner" 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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[–] [S, M] 37 points 7 months ago (15 children)

πŸ”΄ The Button Has Ended πŸ”΄

Thank you to all that played :)

The Button may be back in the future!

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  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    I wonder if people got too greedy and waited too long to press, or if we ran out of people

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago* (4 children)

    Can we have the button back today? Maybe with a cool down time di people can press it again after 1h or so without creating multiple accounts?

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  • [–] [S] 9 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I have a lot of work to do on it, but do people really want it back so quickly?

    I can add a 1 hour cooldown though for a round 2 :)

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    • [–] 27 points 7 months ago (5 children)

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

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    • [–] 50 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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    • [–] 23 points 7 months ago

    3bCRBZyOWInEYZK.jpeg

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    [–] 15 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I am immortalized as press #69.

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    • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

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

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    [–] 10 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    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

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (6 children)

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

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  • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    Thanks for the click, even if by accident!

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    He pressed it when it was blue

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Nice idea

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago (1 child)

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

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    • [–] 10 points 7 months ago

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    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Who pressed it first? I wanna press it so bad

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    • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    I love shit like this. Thank you to whoever coded all this.

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    [–] 8 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Why do I need to log in to do this?

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  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago

    It's not asking for your password, it just needs you to tell it your username and server so it can send you a magic link. It's technically logging in, but it needs to know who you are so you can press the button (and use the chat).

    This is how this kind of event always works on the Fediverse. It's not putting your account at risk and I don't really see the problem.

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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I quoted GLaDOS saying β€œDon't press that button. You don't know what you're doing.”

    … and no one pressed the button. It ended.

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  • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    You were the one!

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    • [–] 8 points 7 months ago

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

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    I didn't press the reddit one, guess I'll press this one

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    [–] 7 points 7 months ago

    Small typo in the TL;DR. It says the timer resets to 5 mins not 15.

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    Man, now I miss the good old days of reddit April fools experiments

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    [–] 6 points 7 months ago

    We fought valourously, blue team! 26% of the total hold time! Congrats to the winning purple! And also to the 2nd place team green! Red, you fought great too!

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    [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    My worst fears realized: it ended when i was away, between work and home. :(

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    • [–] 5 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    It doesn't like my hachyderm.io account.

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    • [–] 12 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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    • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Imo, it’s kinda lame that this ended before April Fools even began in the US. What’s the point of having an April fools day joke if people can’t even experience it?

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    • [–] 3 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Chat's paused! what happened?

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    • [–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 7 months ago* (1 child)

    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
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    • [–] 2 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Purple for the win! Not even Godrick's extra clicks could save team green

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    • [+] -6 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Having to login for this is obnoxious. πŸ‘Ž

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