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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
But you DO act as if people won’t just bring over whatever they personally liked. As if there’s some debate to be had, and a kind of consensus to be reached about not doing so with stuff people like you arbitrarily consider “valueless”.
Even within your own framework of “value” can you really argue that something lots of people like, that doesn’t really cost anyone else anything, is somehow detrimental enough to oppose?
And who the fuck cares if it’s shallow? Positive online interaction is positive online interaction. How the hell do you come to the conclusion that having less of THAT would be an improvement?
Lol, I have come to the conclusion that I want less of whatever this is. Here’s your medal for winning whatever debate you thought we were having. 🏅
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I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.
Yeah! Fuck fun!
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?
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.
Yep, I was thinking Lemmyversary.
It shouldn’t be lemmy specific. Lemmy is just one fediverse app.
we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit
I like the attitude but I never liked the term in the first place
So?
so I made this post.
Lemabration day.
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
But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn’t be specific to lemmy.
Rat day
Groundhog’s Day.
waitaminute…
Groundhog’s Day.
waitaminute…
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
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.
Excising yourself from bourgeois social media day just doesn’t have a good ring to it.
I kinda like cheese day
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
Pie day?
I’m down with this.
Fucking pie, hell yeah
That’s March 14th, Albert Einstein’s birthday. But I don’t celebrate that, because I’m a Tauist.
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
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
Cake Day is from birthdays, mate. You know? That annual celebration of creation where there’s usually cake?
Stop letting spez live in your head and just enjoy where you’re at.
which is why I’m asking for sources of it being used prior to reddit. I’m not arguing one way or another
Oxford English Dictionary says the first instance of the phrase “cake day” was from a diary entry in the 1800s.
I’m not arguing one way or another
You literally were.
I don’t know what I’m supposed to do with people who can’t just scroll up and read
it doesnt become generic unless we make it ubiquitous
mbin already has it
Yeah it’s officially built in to Lemmy’s web UI too.
that honestly kind of chaps my ass. why not just call it “date joined”
awww but i like the little cake icon and everything
im not going to let the enshitification of reddit take away everything i like. im also a bit salty about ‘karma’
calling it karma was so fucking smarmy
chaps my ass
Huh… Never heard that one before.
Free slurpee day, that’s my cake day too
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
Why the lemon party hate >:(
did you google it
Annual commemorative pastry observance
I like the idea that the event is about honoring pastry, rather than measuring time
Fediversary? Lemmyversary?
It’s your Beanniversary 🫘
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
