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
cake day is just one more way to discourage you from leaving.
how’s that
the concept of account lifespan duration, regardless of what it’s called, exists only to make you feel more attached to your account.
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.
Why does it even need to be acknowledged
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.
Fun
Cake day.
Stop hating. Hating sucks.
Fediversary?
I think we should normalise sharing your actual birthday, and while we’re at it also share what street you grew up on, and your mother’s maiden name
And your first pet’s name, and your social security number
Yeah, we want to be authentic, right?
Happy canal exit day!
I vote for garlic bread day
I think ace people are using that already. /s
You’re account is tagged as a bot. Is that intentional? It’s a checkbox in account settings.
Thanks, I think I got it turned off, do you mind confirming? Apparently I can’t see it
Yup, gone.
Thanks, I appreciate you
i think cake day predates reddit
I was digging into that. can you find it? the top results claim that it was just from Reddit putting a picture of a birthday cake next to your join date
The anniversary of joining lemmy
Lemmiversary
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Fucking pie, hell yeah
That’s March 14th, Albert Einstein’s birthday. But I don’t celebrate that, because I’m a Tauist.
I’m down with this.
we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit
I like the attitude but I never liked the term in the first place
so I made this post.
I disagree. I always found it to be a bit of totally inconsequential fun.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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?
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. 🏅
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Cheesecake?
Happy cheesecake day!
Well it doesn’t help that they use the cake icon for it.
Not sure what else to propose calling it but anything else would be better.
On Hexbear I’ve only ever seen it called Molotov day
Mazel tov
a cake has been used to represent celebration of birthdays or anniversaries for longer than we’ve been calling them cake days
