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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    7 days ago

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

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      7 days ago

      I had a funny feeling that I should blow my load before I went to bed, and I’m glad I did.

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        6 days ago

        Definitely not a bad decision. It’s weird because activity picked up as the morning came, so i wasn’t worried about it at all.
        Then, in the hour i was gone, it died. Bummer.

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        6 days ago

        I at least wanted to be there to keep it going if it was about to time-out! As the morning arrived, activity in chat and joins picked up so i wasn’t worried about it, but then it died in the hour i was away. I was so bummed because i could have easily kept a closer eye, if necessary. I just didn’t think it was.