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 :)

  • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
    37·
    3 months ago

    🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴

    Thank you to all that played :)

    The Button may be back in the future!

    • SibboEnglish
      14·
      3 months ago

      With 13 hours 20 minutes my estimate of 6 hours wasn’t that bad. But the reason it failed was not night, but probably people being in the office.

    • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
      13·
      3 months ago

      Thank you demigodrick, this was a great experience! I do hope for another season of The Button! 😄

    • blx@piefed.zipEnglish
      11·
      3 months ago

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

    • muzzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 months ago

      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?

      • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
        9·
        3 months ago

        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 :)

        • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
          13·
          3 months ago

          Maybe in a week or two, TheButton Redox, once you’ve had time to make your tweaks and a bit of word to get round.

        • muzzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4·
          3 months ago

          It would be nice to see it back on April 1St for the Americans to have a go at it. But I understand it you are busy or have a life to attend to.

      • bdonvr@thelemmy.clubEnglish
        2·
        3 months ago

        I think one hour is way too early. In that setup four or five people can keep it going forever.

    • waffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      Thank you for making this event and to the mods for helping! Having the live chat and seeing every team trying to come up with strategies (plus the friendly banter!) was fun :D

  • SibboEnglish
    27·
    3 months ago

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

  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgEnglish
    141·
    3 months ago

    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.

    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      15·
      3 months ago

      No, not yet, but I am actually pulling together something around the login as I’ve ended up using it in a couple of places with things I’m working on, so will let you know when thats up!

  • kip@piefed.zipEnglish
    10·
    3 months ago

    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

    • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      3 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.

    • Demigodrick@lemmy.zipOPMEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      There is a leaderboard on there with a bunch of stats including that one :)

      Go on, press it… you know you want to!