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.zip
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    🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴

    Thank you to all that played :)

    The Button may be back in the future!

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      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.

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

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

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      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.zipOPM
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        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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          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.

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          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.

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

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      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