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Lemmy should just go its own way and forget about cake day and karma farming, and instead reward original content, until reddit starts copying Lemmy

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Flax@feddit.uk
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Cake day is cute

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Sibbo@sopuli.xyz
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Yes. I mean, just because your stupid neighbour celebrates their birthday, it doesn’t mean you would stop celebrating your birthday just to be different.

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Nollij@sopuli.xyz
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Counterpoint: birthdays (and cake days, and many anniversaries) are a pointless celebration.

Payton Oswalt had a pretty good plan on that: https://youtu.be/sbJs-Ul1QFo

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QuizzaciousOtter@lemm.ee
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How are they pointless if they bring people joy? I know there are exceptions but I’m pretty sure people generally really like birthdays…

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Flax@feddit.uk
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NO HAPPINESS ALLOWED! GET BACK TO THE COAL MINES!

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Anas@lemmy.world
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Disagree, cake days are only a fun “easter egg”, and karma doesn’t really exist on Lemmy as far as I can tell.

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ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca
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The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.

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ccunning@lemmy.world
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The official lemmy interfaces don’t track those things.

Cake Days are shown in the default web interface. Like for this user who posted further down in this thread:

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TheFin@leminal.space
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And I bet that won’t long

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cRazi_man@lemm.ee
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So far it seems like people develop around the ideas laid down by social media giants. Rather than replicating, it would be good to see incorporation of healthier options (e.g. time monitoring displayed in app, stopping endless scrolling and keeping to page by page scrolling, avoiding prioritising low effort content (by showing older posts in people’s feeds as well and displaying more that prompts comments rather than just upvotes, etc). Don’t know how they would design to minimise the hivemind…there’s still plenty of that.

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