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@fedia.io
    8717·
    3 months 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.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
      171·
      3 months 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@sopuli.xyz
      124·
      3 months 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?

    • KRAW@linux.communityEnglish
      92·
      3 months 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@sopuli.xyz
        54·
        3 months 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@linux.communityEnglish
          72·
          3 months 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@sopuli.xyz
            13·
            3 months 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?

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
      75·
      3 months 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.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      102·
      3 months 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.

  • Chaos@lemmy.ml
    342·
    3 months 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

  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
    302·
    3 months ago

    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”.

  • 𒉀TheGuyTM3𒉁@lemmy.ml
    181·
    3 months 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.

    • Crackhappy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I never celebrated my cake day on Reddit, and I was there for 15 years. I just don’t give a shit.

    • graymess [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      2·
      3 months ago

      Agreed, especially in Lemmy where accounts are bound to instances that you may not stick with. I’m a good example. I’ve been on Lemmy for over a year, but just abandoned my account on lemmy.world because I kind of hated it there lol.

  • AlligatorBlizzard@sh.itjust.works
    161·
    3 months ago

    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).

    • communism@lemmy.ml
      2·
      3 months ago

      I mean I always migrated Reddit accounts at least yearly too, definitely not on an anniversary. I’ve always seen it as tied to an account, not a person.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
    161·
    3 months ago

    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.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        1·
        3 months ago

        you know what good point, i guess i was familiar with the term before i was familiar with reddit so I made the wrong assumption. still the rest of what i said is true: it doesn’t matter.

          • pyre@lemmy.world
            31·
            3 months ago

            so if someone asks a question you literally cannot say that it doesn’t matter, because in saying so you’ll have formed an opinion on it? that’s ridiculous.

            • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeOPEnglish
              11·
              3 months ago

              you just gave the definition of having an opinion. I don’t know who you should be angry at about that but it certainly isn’t me

              • pyre@lemmy.world
                1·
                3 months ago

                I’m not sure you’re understanding what I’m saying. but more importantly I’m not sure you’re understanding what you’re saying.

                • Ellia Plissken@lemm.eeOPEnglish
                  1·
                  3 months ago

                  all I see is somebody still having a conversation 11 hours later about how little they have an opinion on something