Showerthoughts @lemmy.world TehBamski @lemmy.world 2mo ago

Lemmy's major collective account cake days are coming up soon.

Are we doing anything interesting for the celebration?

46 comments

Everyone should post beans
- And not poop for 3 days
- You want beans? I'll give you all the beans you can handle...
  
  Wait a minute...
- Lemmings welcoming another Rexxitor, circa June 2023.
- How soon we forget Lemmy’s first big meme.
  
  3 days, no poop.
Toss a coin to your server. Oh community of plenty.
I was wondering that, actually. Many instances predate the Rexodus, but a lot of them sprung up around the same time as a result of that.

Trying to think of some way to celebrate on my instance. Maybe a birthday hat on my site icon for the day? lol
- Replace the website with a picture of beans.
  
  On second thought, don't do that
  
  I've seen the reference a lot, but I don't understand it. At this point, I'm too afraid to ask. lol
Oh, how about that? I say we get drunk. Day drink! Day drink and post stupidly!
- For me it was Tuesday
- Act natural. Got it.
Let's name it a Beans Day instead of a Cake Day.
- Yesss
- i think you're onto something
I assume I will forget to make myself a cakeday meme like I did every year I was on Reddit. Seems appropriate as a celebration.
Went to look and you're right, June 14, the exact day Boost for reddit stoped working. Now ai use boost for lemmy! :)
- Shucks, I originally joined beehaw but they were blocking too many sites, and switched on September. Ruined my true cake day
  
  That's okay, changing instances at least once is part of the experience
Let's let Reddit Things die with Reddit.
Maybe it could be specific to each user?

Few ideas

a community for people to post in on their cake day, where they can comment on some aspect of their life that's improved in the last year / something they're grateful for

if you come across a cake day account, pop into their history and comment on something you find interesting
- Note to self—don't make any comments on cake day
- The latter sounds great!
How about nothing? The happy cake day comments were even more annoying than "this" comments
- This.
- Ah, complaining about the culture of the site was my favorite part of reddit culture
  
  this place isn't what it used to be
looks at profile oh hello
- Lemmy wish you a Happy Cakeday! May your post counts be high and your comments be gold.
How about denim day? Bean jean day? Thigh high day? Cake is a lie, let's celebrate real linux twinks.
Why is that a thing?

Same energy as a store giving me a birthday email.
- You must be fun at parties.
  
  Birthday parties to be precise.
  
  Are these birthday parties where we sit around selling each other the latest MLM garbage
Canvas event?
Mine's June 13th. One more month and I won't have posted anything on reddit for a full year.
Wow it's almost been a year already?
- It sure has. I knew it had been a while but didn't realize how close till we entered into May.

46 comments