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

  • Kalcifer@sh.itjust.works
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    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”.

  • missingno@fedia.io
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    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.

    • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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      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?

    • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
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      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.

    • Chozo@fedia.io
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      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.

    • KRAW@linux.communityEnglish
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      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
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        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
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          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
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            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?

  • Alice@beehaw.org
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    3 months 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.

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
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      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.

  • pyre@lemmy.world
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    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.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
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        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
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            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
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              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
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                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
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                  3 months ago

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