What the metaverse can learn from r/place If you were watching reddit this April fools, you should have seen the return of the place. It’s a wonderful idea Each reddit user can place a single-coloured pixel anywhere they choose once every 5 mins in a predetermined whiteboard space It becomes a mirror of global society in many ways Individually people don’t have much influence or power but by banding together into groups they can begin to create images a single pixel at a time. Anyone can make anything if they can form a big enough movement. Then these groups solidify and as they expand, they get more power. And as a mirror to real life they begin to create treaties between neighbouring projects. I noticed little hearts between projects indicating some kind of truce. Then people start creating weapons. Well scripts people can load to automate the placing of the correct pixels in the correct place. More ambitious projects can form. The entire place started to look l