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
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
Excising yourself from bourgeois social media day just doesn't have a good ring to it.
There are normal cheeses, there are lactose free cheeses and vegan cheeses as well. I think that's all possible bases covered? Beside, cheese is delicious (I have yet to have a delicious vegan cheese but I'm told they exist - probably didn't get here yet or too pricey for me - but that's beside the point :D).
I vote cheese day, your logic is bullet proof.
But for some it is Mastodon or Mbin or PieFed or whatever. It shouldn't be specific to lemmy.
but I'll get that confused with the day that we celebrate the lunar excursion module from Apollo 11
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.
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.
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.
a cake has been used to represent celebration of birthdays or anniversaries for longer than we've been calling them cake days
that's not generic, that's from Reddit as far as I can tell. "anniversary" would be generic
Cake Day is from birthdays, mate. You know? That annual celebration of creation where there's usually cake?
Stop letting spez live in your head and just enjoy where you're at.
which is why I'm asking for sources of it being used prior to reddit. I'm not arguing one way or another
I don't know what I'm supposed to do with people who can't just scroll up and read
the concept of account lifespan duration, regardless of what it's called, exists only to make you feel more attached to your account.
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.
