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
- missingno ( @missingno@fedia.io ) 47•26 days ago
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.
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English26•26 days ago
I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 25•26 days ago
Yeah! Fuck fun!
- Chozo ( @Chozo@fedia.io ) 14•26 days ago
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.
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 10•26 days ago
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?
- Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English6•26 days ago
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.
- KRAW ( @KRAW@linux.community ) English5•26 days ago
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.
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 5•26 days ago
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.
- KRAW ( @KRAW@linux.community ) English5•25 days ago
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.
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 1•25 days ago
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?
- KRAW ( @KRAW@linux.community ) English3•25 days ago
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. 🏅
- MentalEdge ( @MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ) 1•25 days ago
K
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 29•26 days ago
we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit
I like the attitude but I never liked the term in the first place
- acockworkorange ( @acockworkorange@mander.xyz ) 5•26 days ago
So?
so I made this post.
- texasspacejoey ( @texasspacejoey@lemmy.ca ) English25•25 days ago
Why does it even need to be acknowledged
- tetris11 ( @tetris11@lemmy.ml ) 4•25 days ago
We need to celebrate the registration day of all citizens in order to turn an informal innocuous event into an emotional milestone for seemingly jovial purposes, until of course the platform decides to operate for profit, in which case one can then commodify these events by urging loyal citizens to buy party badges to share with the birthdayee, regardless of whether or not one actually knows said person. Its called being a good citizen, and I am all here for it. Yes.
- molave ( @mo_lave@reddthat.com ) 18•26 days ago
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
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 12•26 days ago
it doesnt become generic unless we make it ubiquitous
mbin already has it
- Zagorath ( @Zagorath@aussie.zone ) 9•26 days ago
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”
- originalucifer ( @originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com ) 12•26 days ago
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
- EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted ( @EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•26 days ago
chaps my ass
Huh… Never heard that one before.
- Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English4•26 days ago
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
- Ech ( @ech@lemm.ee ) English4•26 days ago
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
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English2•25 days ago
Oxford English Dictionary says the first instance of the phrase “cake day” was from a diary entry in the 1800s.
is there a way for me to get around to the OED online pay walls so I can see the details?
- Chaos ( @SsxChaos@lemmy.ml ) 18•26 days ago
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
- JetpackJackson ( @JetpackJackson@feddit.org ) 10•26 days ago
I kinda like cheese day
- illi ( @illi@lemm.ee ) English2•26 days ago
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.
- KittenBiscuits ( @KittenBiscuits@lemm.ee ) English2•26 days ago
And even if it isn’t, then you’ll have Swiss cheese.
explain the jarboa thing?
- Snot Flickerman ( @SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) English8•26 days ago
Jerboa is the official mobile app for Lemmy.
A lemming is a type of rodent, and so is a jerboa.
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 1•26 days ago
But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn’t be specific to lemmy.
- AnarchoNoAdjective ( @AnarchoNoAdjective@lemmy.ml ) 16•26 days ago
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
- SorteKanin ( @SorteKanin@feddit.dk ) 3•26 days ago
It shouldn’t be lemmy specific. Lemmy is just one fediverse app.
- sping ( @sping@lemmy.sdf.org ) English1•26 days ago
Yep, I was thinking Lemmyversary.
- apotheotic (she/her) ( @apotheotic@beehaw.org ) English16•26 days ago
Fediversary?
- cmgvd3lw ( @cmgvd3lw@discuss.tchncs.de ) 14•26 days ago
We don’t need a cake day.
- 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁 ( @TheGuyTM3@lemmy.ml ) 12•26 days ago
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.
- Melllvar ( @charonn0@startrek.website ) English9•26 days ago
Annual commemorative pastry observance
I like the idea that the event is about honoring pastry, rather than measuring time
- Alice ( @Alice@beehaw.org ) 8•25 days ago
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.
- Melatonin ( @Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 6•25 days ago
Lemmiversary
- corsicanguppy ( @corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ) English5•25 days ago
We call it a redditism and we fucking move on.
so we say “Happy redditism”?
- grrgyle ( @grrgyle@slrpnk.net ) 1•24 days ago
I think we just don’t call it.
The people who like that kind of stuff can acknowledge it if they want
- Jalapeño Popper ( @jalapeno_popper561@lemmy.ml ) English4•26 days ago
Pie day?
I’m down with this.
- jsomae ( @jsomae@lemmy.ml ) 3•26 days ago
cake day is just one more way to discourage you from leaving.
how’s that
- jsomae ( @jsomae@lemmy.ml ) 1•25 days ago
the concept of account lifespan duration, regardless of what it’s called, exists only to make you feel more attached to your account.