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
We don't need a cake day.
Cake day is nice, maybe think that reddit can't have it.
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.edit: it seems like it was probably coined for reddit, but I know it also means birthday now. even if it didn't who gives a shit, the rest of my comment stands.
Fediversary?
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 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).
Lemmiversary
It's your Beanniversary 🫘
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.
You could go off activitypub and do something related to pubs. No word, just a 🍻. Or just Cheers! as the greeting for it.
Lemabration day.
Lie day?
"The anniversary of you joining Lemmy"
Happy canal exit day!
Happy Bean Day
