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A vast majority of Lemmy users are gonna have cakeday in the summer for a while
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this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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I am genuinely excited to see how many people stick around post June 30th. If this place stays as vibrant as it has then this is my new home for sure.
When all this API shit started kicking off I didn't really like the look of lemmy, but now it looks like the best. KBin was fun for a bit but felt kind of chaotic, plus not having posts vanish after upvoting/viewing the comments was a death sentene for me. The other alternatives are just shit IMO.
Plus looks like a lot of app devs are lemmyheads, Memmy has been great after installing it today. There's no way i'm using the reddit app post June so yea...Lemmy all the way, cause everything else blows for content consumption.
Same. I have Kbin, Tildes, Lemmy and a few others just to poke around, but I find I spend the most time here. I even went and found a script that makes Lemmy look a bit like Reddit and I am perfectly happy.
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We should throw a group party in a year!
Kinda gutted to have lost my June 4th cakeday due to fleeing from Beehaw. Getting in before July 1st still makes me cool though, right? Right?! 😭
We will probably give ourselves some grandiose name like "Founders" All the original lemmy people pre-june2023 gonna get called "early Adopters" like lemmy didn't exist for like 3 or more years and they built it.
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My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.
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It's the new boomer generation
Hey does anybody know if this community is ran by the same people who ran the subreddit
I think that would be epic if so or is this just a clone
It's not. This community so far has a single mod, @vatlark.
To quote him from here:
I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn’t find one on Lemmy.
Reminds me of all the cake days a year after the digg exodus.
I actually might remember mine, because o joined here on the first day of the blackout. June 12th. Quit Reddit after 16 years on the 11th, so it's kinda memorable for me. And the 12th of a different month is my birthday, so that helps.
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I hat december the 31st for Eleven years on reddit. Always tried to remember why I created an account on new years eve...
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Mine is June 1st, the first day we heard about the API bullshit. But then Beehaw defederated LW so I had to open an account on LW to follow a couple of communities
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Winter for us Aussies.
I thought it seemed too cold to be summer!
Also winter in South America
CAKE
We all had babies on R-Day.
My reddit cake day is on April 10th, my birthday. The reason I made an account was because my favorite band was doing an AMA that day.
Mazel Tov!
In a couple of years when this place gets big we're gonna sound like boomers too lol
"Back in MY day, you had to use the website unless you wanted to download an app off of github or get a testflight invitation!"
Jerboa is on the Play Store :)
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I think I lasted 2 days and stumbled on sub.rehab, thus my Fediverse adventure began
as is tradition.
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Summer Boomers/June Boomers like me.
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