And now that we're not on reddit, can we call it something other than "cake day"? Sounds like straight up neckbearded fedora shit
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Can we just not care? Commenting about cake day is the most annoying shit in the world. No one cares
yeah, I'm good with that too.
Finally, someone says it. Always hated those endless "happy cake day" replies. Sometimes it was 20 or 30 replies on a single comment of nothing but that cake day nonsense.
Back when I was a prolific Reddit karma whore (years ago) it was the best way to get free points for doing absolutely nothing. No purpose otherwise.
Hopefully with time we move away from the redditisms. A lot of overlap at the moment. Let's be a new community. Not a mirror of them.
Cultures adapt and shift slowly, but I would love for us to embrace becoming something new instead of trying to recapture what once was.
It will be called poop day?
LEMMINGS MUST GO 3 DAYS WITHOUT POOPING STARTING EACH YEAR ON THEIR POOP DAY
OH NO
Lemmiversary
OR... we could call it a cakeday too and rip this exclusive novelty from Reddit.
We're at war, gentlemen!
please. stop.
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DAE narwhal bacons at midnight?
Edit: shit. Shoulda read ahead and noticed others had already made that joke.
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I am genuinely excited to see how many people stick around post June 30th. If this place stays as vibrant as it has then this is my new home for sure.
When all this API shit started kicking off I didn't really like the look of lemmy, but now it looks like the best. KBin was fun for a bit but felt kind of chaotic, plus not having posts vanish after upvoting/viewing the comments was a death sentene for me. The other alternatives are just shit IMO.
Plus looks like a lot of app devs are lemmyheads, Memmy has been great after installing it today. There's no way i'm using the reddit app post June so yea...Lemmy all the way, cause everything else blows for content consumption.
Same. I have Kbin, Tildes, Lemmy and a few others just to poke around, but I find I spend the most time here. I even went and found a script that makes Lemmy look a bit like Reddit and I am perfectly happy.
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My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.
I know mine is somewhere in June or July, so it's really more of the same. You would think I'd learn in 13 years which day it is, but much like my actual birthday, it's just another day.
It's the new boomer generation
It's gonna be a big ol' lemmy party around here next summer
We should throw a group party in a year!
Mine is June 1st, the first day we heard about the API bullshit. But then Beehaw defederated LW so I had to open an account on LW to follow a couple of communities
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Hey does anybody know if this community is ran by the same people who ran the subreddit
I think that would be epic if so or is this just a clone
My reddit cake day is on April 10th, my birthday. The reason I made an account was because my favorite band was doing an AMA that day.
CAKE
I actually might remember mine, because o joined here on the first day of the blackout. June 12th. Quit Reddit after 16 years on the 11th, so it's kinda memorable for me. And the 12th of a different month is my birthday, so that helps.
Summer Boomers/June Boomers like me.
Kinda gutted to have lost my June 4th cakeday due to fleeing from Beehaw. Getting in before July 1st still makes me cool though, right? Right?! 😭
We will probably give ourselves some grandiose name like "Founders" All the original lemmy people pre-june2023 gonna get called "early Adopters" like lemmy didn't exist for like 3 or more years and they built it.
exactly
Someone used the term fledditors. That was me. I signed up on the Wednesday to beehaw after the boycott. I started lemmy.world the Sunday after. IDK. I like lemmy.world better, but beehaw is good too.
Mazel Tov!
In a couple of years when this place gets big we're gonna sound like boomers too lol
"Back in MY day, you had to use the website unless you wanted to download an app off of github or get a testflight invitation!"
Jerboa is on the Play Store :)
back in my day beehive and lemmy were federated.
It was the same with reddit after the mass Digg exodus
Yup, September 2013 for me is my cakeday on Reddit IIRC
Having cake days together is better than having a cake day alone I think
Winter down here in Aus. 15th June for me.
I had the same thought this morning! I also wonder if there's a similar phenomenon with older redditors that came from digg. When was that?
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We'll be known as the Lemmy Boomer Generation.
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Reminds me of all the cake days a year after the digg exodus.
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