Happy cake day, sh.itjust.works!

Many of us are having our cake days, or are close to them. What were your highlights over the past year? Did you enjoy or appreciate a particular community, user, trend, or something else? We want to hear about it!

Joyeux anniversaire, sh.itjust.works!

Beaucoup d’entre nous ont leur anniversaire, ou sont sur le point de l’avoir. Quels ont été vos moments forts au cours de l’année écoulée? Avez-vous apprécié une communauté, un utilisateur, une tendance ou autre chose en particulier? Nous voulons en savoir plus!

(I apologize if the French translation is bad. I am not a native speaker, and relied on Google Translate.)

  • Bronzie@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    For me it’s been the stability of our sever.

    It’s run by a private person on nothing but goodwill and interest, which I was afraid would only last a few months. He (and the other admins) have done an incredible job keeping things running smoothly and with a very level headed approach to content filtering and general rules.

    You all deserve a massive round of applause from all of us benefitting with zero work.

  • sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I wonder if that man was able to go without peeing for that amount of time. What food and drink did he consume. Did our suggestions help? Also, separate question, why? Seriously, why. Why couldn’t he tell us why either.

    That’s my favourite moment. Early on but it sticks in my head.

  • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    Honestly when I first joined, I was thinking it was gonna be a week or two at most before I’d go back to Reddit. But I’ve been impressed by the community and have grown to love it. It feels so nice to be able to comment on a major news story and actually have people respond, instead of just having your comment get lost in a sea of thousands of reddit comments.

      • jballs@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        1 month ago

        Haha yeah and for breaking news you could just forget about it. I can’t imagine being in a reddit thread when Trump was found guilty the other day. It’d be like shouting at a thunderstorm."

  • Cracks_InTheWalls@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    🥳

    I don’t have one particular highlight, I just love being here. Good admins, good people, good discussions, people are pretty chill. What’s not to like?

    sh.it.heads 4 lyfe, yo!

  • pastermil@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    Nothing too eventful to highlight specifically, but being here has been nice, so there’s that.

    Hopefully this will last! To infinity and beyond!

    Edit: Shit, now that you mention it, this account’s about to have its cake day as well! Didn’t realize I’ve been here pretty much from the beginning!

  • vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I’m not sure when exactly my cake day is but have been hanging out with you shitters a while and truly dig it here.

    So much of the community interaction and openness to real dialog and sharing reminds me of the internet I grew up on. Thanks to each and every one of you.

    Favorite moment: following discussions on the element channel and actively having a voice in defederating from communities that didn’t align with the goals of our community. Being empowered to shape what this place was gonna look like really drew me in and made me want to keep coming back!

    Cheers y’all!

    Vulgar

  • threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    29 days ago

    Big thanks to the instance admins on here for giving me a home away from Reddit over the past year!

    Highlights? Watching my communities grow from nothing to fairly active over the past year.

    Lemmy as a whole has also grown and stabilized nicely. I went from browsing /all out of boredom to having difficulty keeping up with the posts in my subscribed feed.

    Hear’s to the next year!

  • agentshags@sh.itjust.works
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    1 month ago

    My highlights were watching communities slowly blossom and to see more activity in the comment sections. More variety, more interaction, more content. Getting to recognize users, learning new things and trying to share a thing or two as well. It’s been a great experience overall, and I hope to see you all around on the best server ever next year as well!

    ❤️

  • Quills@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 month ago

    I don’t interact a whole lot, but when i do i’ve been having a pretty nice experience, thanks there everyone!

    And yeah, happy cake day sh.itjust.works!