Asklemmy

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.

Why does it even need to be acknowledged

we need to take cake day back. fuck reddit

Happy lem-aversery would work I think

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

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".

We don't need a cake day.

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

Cake day.

Make it as generic as possible

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.

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.

Annual commemorative pastry observance

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).

The Artist Formerly Known As Cake Day or TAFKACD if you’re into the whole brevity thing.

i think cake day predates reddit

Why the lemon party hate >:(

We call it a redditism and we fucking move on.

I vote for garlic bread day

Lemmiversary

It's your Beanniversary 🫘

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

Maybe to commemorate one of the first viral posts, about not pooping for three days, it could be Poop Day.

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