Asklemmy

Fediversary?

cake day is just one more way to discourage you from leaving.

Cake day.

Stop hating. Hating sucks.

We don't need a cake day.

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.

You could go off activitypub and do something related to pubs. No word, just a 🍻. Or just Cheers! as the greeting for it.

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).

Cake day is nice, maybe think that reddit can't have it.

Given that Lemmy's mascot looks like a mouse (I think it's technically a lemming), an idea that came to my mind was "cheese day".

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.