And now that we're not on reddit, can we call it something other than "cake day"? Sounds like straight up neckbearded fedora shit
this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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Can we just not care? Commenting about cake day is the most annoying shit in the world. No one cares
Finally, someone says it. Always hated those endless "happy cake day" replies. Sometimes it was 20 or 30 replies on a single comment of nothing but that cake day nonsense.
yeah, I'm good with that too.
Back when I was a prolific Reddit karma whore (years ago) it was the best way to get free points for doing absolutely nothing. No purpose otherwise.
Hopefully with time we move away from the redditisms. A lot of overlap at the moment. Let's be a new community. Not a mirror of them.
Cultures adapt and shift slowly, but I would love for us to embrace becoming something new instead of trying to recapture what once was.
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It will be called poop day?
LEMMINGS MUST GO 3 DAYS WITHOUT POOPING STARTING EACH YEAR ON THEIR POOP DAY
OH NO
Lemmiversary
Fediversary?
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I am genuinely excited to see how many people stick around post June 30th. If this place stays as vibrant as it has then this is my new home for sure.
When all this API shit started kicking off I didn't really like the look of lemmy, but now it looks like the best. KBin was fun for a bit but felt kind of chaotic, plus not having posts vanish after upvoting/viewing the comments was a death sentene for me. The other alternatives are just shit IMO.
Plus looks like a lot of app devs are lemmyheads, Memmy has been great after installing it today. There's no way i'm using the reddit app post June so yea...Lemmy all the way, cause everything else blows for content consumption.
Same. I have Kbin, Tildes, Lemmy and a few others just to poke around, but I find I spend the most time here. I even went and found a script that makes Lemmy look a bit like Reddit and I am perfectly happy.
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Kinda gutted to have lost my June 4th cakeday due to fleeing from Beehaw. Getting in before July 1st still makes me cool though, right? Right?! 😭
We will probably give ourselves some grandiose name like "Founders" All the original lemmy people pre-june2023 gonna get called "early Adopters" like lemmy didn't exist for like 3 or more years and they built it.
exactly
Someone used the term fledditors. That was me. I signed up on the Wednesday to beehaw after the boycott. I started lemmy.world the Sunday after. IDK. I like lemmy.world better, but beehaw is good too.
We should throw a group party in a year!
My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.
It's the new boomer generation
It's gonna be a big ol' lemmy party around here next summer
My reddit cake day is on April 10th, my birthday. The reason I made an account was because my favorite band was doing an AMA that day.
I think I lasted 2 days and stumbled on sub.rehab, thus my Fediverse adventure began
Mine is June 1st, the first day we heard about the API bullshit. But then Beehaw defederated LW so I had to open an account on LW to follow a couple of communities
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CAKE
Imagine a lot of people have 12yo reddit accounts and migrated like I did when digg went to shit.
Hi, little brother.
Oh Claudia, do you have to butt in every time?
Yes. Project Ex. The first true AI.
as is tradition.
Reminds me of all the cake days a year after the digg exodus.
I had the same thought this morning! I also wonder if there's a similar phenomenon with older redditors that came from digg. When was that?
According to other comments 12 years ago and yes - it was exactly the same.
At least that's what they say. I missed the digg era, joined reddit 9 years ago.
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Hey does anybody know if this community is ran by the same people who ran the subreddit
I think that would be epic if so or is this just a clone
It's not. This community so far has a single mod, @vatlark.
To quote him from here:
I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn’t find one on Lemmy.
Summer Boomers/June Boomers like me.
I actually might remember mine, because o joined here on the first day of the blackout. June 12th. Quit Reddit after 16 years on the 11th, so it's kinda memorable for me. And the 12th of a different month is my birthday, so that helps.
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