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

65 points

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.

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25 points

Yeah! Fuck fun!

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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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?

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

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16 points

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.

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39 points

we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit

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10 points

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

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4 points

So?

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17 points

so I made this post.

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4 points

Cake day.

Stop hating. Hating sucks.

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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 🧀

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

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14 points

I kinda like cheese day

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6 points

Rat day

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5 points

Groundhog’s Day.

waitaminute…

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2 points

Groundhog’s Day.

waitaminute…

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4 points

explain the jarboa thing?

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13 points

Jerboa is the official mobile app for Lemmy.

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

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But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn’t be specific to lemmy.

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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.

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3 points

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

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34 points

Happy lem-aversery would work I think

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Yep, I was thinking Lemmyversary.

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

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

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12 points

Excuse you, sir, but you should be keeping the LEM in you hearts every day. And you call yourself an America. For shame.

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