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
    36·
    22 hours ago

    🔴 The Button Has Ended 🔴

    Thank you to all that played :)

    The Button may be back in the future!

    • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
      14·
      22 hours 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·
      22 hours ago

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

    • blx@piefed.zipEnglish
      11·
      22 hours ago

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

    • waffle@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      3·
      19 hours 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

    • muzzle@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      22 hours 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·
        22 hours 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·
          22 hours 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·
          22 hours 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.

      • bdonvrAEnglish
        2·
        22 hours ago

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

  • Flames5123@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4·
    19 hours ago

    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?

    • hereiamagain@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6·
      17 hours ago

      It’s sad that it’s dead already. But the world is much larger than the US, it only makes sense to start it at UTC April 1st, in my opinion

  • mschae@discuss.mschae23.deEnglish
    8·
    22 hours ago

    I quoted GLaDOS saying “Don’t press that button. You don’t know what you’re doing.”

    … and no one pressed the button. It ended.

  • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
    5·
    20 hours ago

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

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      14 hours ago

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

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        2 hours 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.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        1·
        1 hour 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.

  • calmblue75@lemmy.mlEnglish
    6·
    22 hours 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!

  • Sibbo@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    26·
    1 day ago

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

    • Deebster@infosec.pubEnglish
      13·
      23 hours 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.