what should we call cake day?
what should we call cake day?
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
The anniversary of joining lemmy
Why does it even need to be acknowledged
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.
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.
cake day is a colloquial term that means birthday. it's not invented by or for reddit. also being reminded of reddit isn't something to avoid; you can survive. it's just a website. be normal.
I keep asking people for examples of cake day being used before Reddit
I think nothing is fine. Or narwhal bacon day for people who just can't let go of reddit.
Fediversary?
We don't need a cake day.
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.
I never celebrated my cake day on Reddit, and I was there for 15 years. I just don't give a shit.
cake day is just one more way to discourage you from leaving.
how's that
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.
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.
I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.
Yeah! Fuck fun!
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.
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.
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?
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.
Cake day.
Stop hating. Hating sucks.
Given that Lemmy's mascot looks like a mouse (I think it's technically a lemming), an idea that came to my mind was "cheese day".
Cheesecake?
Happy cheesecake day!
That's perfect!
Cake day is nice, maybe think that reddit can't have it.
Happy lem-aversery would work I think
but I'll get that confused with the day that we celebrate the lunar excursion module from Apollo 11
Excuse you, sir, but you should be keeping the LEM in you hearts every day. And you call yourself an America. For shame.
It shouldn't be lemmy specific. Lemmy is just one fediverse app.
Yep, I was thinking Lemmyversary.
I think some variant of cake day is fun but I'm regretfully going to play devil's advocate this time (even though he really doesn't need any more advocates).
Is an account anniversary a thing we want to recognize as a part of Lemmy culture? There's quite a few people who aren't on their original Lemmy accounts anymore due to servers going offline and cultural disagreements with their original instances. When account migration becomes a thing, does your anniversary follow it? There's a higher percentage of people who make new accounts every so often for the purpose of privacy and that's a behavior I think, as a community, we want to respect even if we don't want to celebrate it - having recognized and trustworthy-ish regulars also has value. I'm not sure if Reddit-level recognition of an anniversary makes sense in the context of the culture we've already started building here.
Also, the majority of those who are on our original accounts have anniversaries within like a month of each other due to Reddit's API bullshit - and doesn't our Canvas event fall around that same time (although using that specifically as a "Fuck Reddit" event is imo not productive - I like the fact that last year's canvas had fuck u/spez everywhere and this year's didn't).
I mean I always migrated Reddit accounts at least yearly too, definitely not on an anniversary. I've always seen it as tied to an account, not a person.
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
I kinda like cheese day
Rat day
Groundhog's Day.
waitaminute...
But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn't be specific to lemmy.
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.
And even if it isn't, then you'll have Swiss cheese.
explain the jarboa thing?
Jerboa is the official mobile app for Lemmy.
A lemming is a type of rodent, and so is a jerboa.
Android app made by the lemmy team is named jerboa
Excising yourself from bourgeois social media day just doesn't have a good ring to it.
Cake day.
Make it as generic as possible
that's not generic, that's from Reddit as far as I can tell. "anniversary" would be generic
Annual commemorative pastry observance
I like the idea that the event is about honoring pastry, rather than measuring time
You could go off activitypub and do something related to pubs. No word, just a 🍻. Or just Cheers! as the greeting for it.
The Artist Formerly Known As Cake Day or TAFKACD if you’re into the whole brevity thing.
just come up with an unpronounceable symbol to replace it
Why the lemon party hate >:(
did you google it
I don't need to google it, it's a great site
i think cake day predates reddit
I was digging into that. can you find it? the top results claim that it was just from Reddit putting a picture of a birthday cake next to your join date
It's your Beanniversary 🫘
Pie day?
That's March 14th, Albert Einstein's birthday. But I don't celebrate that, because I'm a Tauist.
Fucking pie, hell yeah
I'm down with this.
I've wished people a happy accountiversary before
I thought accountiversary was another name for tax day
we're going to need sub-names for people's alts as well
Well it doesn't help that they use the cake icon for it.
Not sure what else to propose calling it but anything else would be better.
On Hexbear I’ve only ever seen it called Molotov day
Mazel tov
a cake has been used to represent celebration of birthdays or anniversaries for longer than we've been calling them cake days
Lemabration day.
Maybe to commemorate one of the first viral posts, about not pooping for three days, it could be Poop Day.
Bean day!
coprolites of the internet
Fediversary? Lemmyversary?
