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the term "cake day" just makes me think of r*ddit. I've seen Lemon Day going around, but we probably want to avoid affiliation with lemon party.

not that we can tell anybody what to do anyway, and each instance could even have its own. anyway, it needs to be something that obviously means "anniversary" and doesn't require explanation otherwise it'll just be annoying

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[โ€“] missingno@fedia.io 47 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Don't. There's no reason to care about the anniversary of someone creating an account on a website. "Cake day" as a concept was one the most insufferable reddit-isms, and will remain so no matter what else you call it.

I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 25 points 5 months ago

Yeah! Fuck fun!

[โ€“] Chozo@fedia.io 14 points 5 months ago

It's just a bit of polite banter.

Don't forget, this platform really is nothing more than a feature-rich chat room. It's okay to have a little fun with it.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 10 points 5 months ago

Why do you hate people having innocent fun? Do you enjoy walking up to people who are smiling, and explaining that their reasons for doing so are dumb?

[โ€“] ech@lemm.ee 6 points 5 months ago

Lol, "insufferable". News flash - there's no "reason" to care about anything. Learn to find enjoyment in life where you can. You don't get a reward for choosing to be miserable the whole time.

[โ€“] KRAW@linux.community 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You're getting a lot of retorts in response to your comment, but I 100% agree. Sure telling people happy cake day is fun the first few times, but it inevitably just becomes stale. One of the things that made reddit not enjoyable was people parroting the same phrases all over the site.

[โ€“] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Ok. So you're saying your disillusionment should apply to everyone?

If you can't have fun with it, no-one else should get to?

I was on Reddit for over a decade. Seeing people make posts to celebrate their anniversary for joining the platform was never stale.

Tolerating something a lot of people clearly have fun with costs you nothing, and trying to shut it down as "pointless" and "not fun" is such old man yelling "stop playing on the park lawn" type bullshit.

[โ€“] KRAW@linux.community 5 points 5 months ago (3 children)

I mean, I'm not calling for a police state to shut down cake day or something. Just saying cake day was a shallow activity imo. People can choose to do whatever they want, but I would rather us think about what was actually valuable about reddit rather than just importing whatever preexisting culture there was.

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[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 29 points 5 months ago (1 children)

we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit

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[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 8 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I like the attitude but I never liked the term in the first place

[โ€“] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 10 points 5 months ago

so I made this post.

[โ€“] texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Why does it even need to be acknowledged

[โ€“] tetris11@lemmy.ml 4 points 5 months ago

We need to celebrate the registration day of all citizens in order to turn an informal innocuous event into an emotional milestone for seemingly jovial purposes, until of course the platform decides to operate for profit, in which case one can then commodify these events by urging loyal citizens to buy party badges to share with the birthdayee, regardless of whether or not one actually knows said person. Its called being a good citizen, and I am all here for it. Yes.

[โ€“] mo_lave@reddthat.com 18 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Cake day.

Make it as generic as possible

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that's not generic, that's from Reddit as far as I can tell. "anniversary" would be generic

[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it doesnt become generic unless we make it ubiquitous

mbin already has it .

[โ€“] Zagorath@aussie.zone 9 points 5 months ago

Yeah it's officially built in to Lemmy's web UI too.

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (2 children)

that honestly kind of chaps my ass. why not just call it "date joined"

[โ€“] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 12 points 5 months ago (1 children)

awww but i like the little cake icon and everything

im not going to let the enshitification of reddit take away everything i like. im also a bit salty about 'karma'

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chaps my ass

Huh... Never heard that one before.

[โ€“] ech@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago (5 children)

Cake Day is from birthdays, mate. You know? That annual celebration of creation where there's usually cake?

Stop letting spez live in your head and just enjoy where you're at.

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[โ€“] SsxChaos@lemmy.ml 18 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I mean for some this is Lemmy for others this is Jarboa either way it's a rodent therefore it may as well be cheese day ๐Ÿง€

Although this would require agreement of most members of this free world app since some people are chees intolerant

[โ€“] JetpackJackson@feddit.org 10 points 5 months ago

I kinda like cheese day

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa is the official mobile app for Lemmy.

A lemming is a type of rodent, and so is a jerboa.

[โ€“] illi@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

There are normal cheeses, there are lactose free cheeses and vegan cheeses as well. I think that's all possible bases covered? Beside, cheese is delicious (I have yet to have a delicious vegan cheese but I'm told they exist - probably didn't get here yet or too pricey for me - but that's beside the point :D).

I vote cheese day, your logic is bullet proof.

[โ€“] KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

And even if it isn't, then you'll have Swiss cheese.

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[โ€“] AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.ml 16 points 5 months ago (3 children)

Happy lem-aversery would work I think

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 9 points 5 months ago

but I'll get that confused with the day that we celebrate the lunar excursion module from Apollo 11

[โ€“] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 3 points 5 months ago

It shouldn't be lemmy specific. Lemmy is just one fediverse app.

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[โ€“] apotheotic 16 points 5 months ago

Fediversary?

[โ€“] cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 5 months ago

We don't need a cake day.

[โ€“] TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I think the concept of "account age" is not beneficial for some people like me.

Your account get two years, three years, but then for just that "big age number" you have difficulties to delete your account and quit the platform because "all of that would be lost".

It's roughly explained but you get the idea. It contribute to addiction for some.

[โ€“] charonn0@startrek.website 9 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Annual commemorative pastry observance

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 4 points 5 months ago

I like the idea that the event is about honoring pastry, rather than measuring time

[โ€“] Alice 8 points 5 months ago

I think cake day is fine. It's because you get a little cake icon by your name, every forum does that. That said, I think the lemon party concern is kind of a stretch, lol.

Just call it what you like. People will know what you mean from context. If we need a community consensus, it'll develop naturally.

[โ€“] Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Lemmiversary

[โ€“] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

We call it a redditism and we fucking move on.

[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago (1 children)

so we say "Happy redditism"?

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[โ€“] jsomae@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

cake day is just one more way to discourage you from leaving.

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[โ€“] tilefan@lemm.ee 2 points 5 months ago

Lemabration day.

[โ€“] CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world 2 points 4 months ago

"The anniversary of you joining Lemmy"

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