has something like this already been posted? I tried searching, and I’m sure I don’t have original thoughts.
There are no cake days, this isn’t Reddit. Don’t try to make it Reddit. Let it be it’s own thing.
It is not Reddit, but Lemmy does show a cake next to the signing up date…
Cake days were by far reddit’s most unproductive and inane tradition, they should’ve died long ago. I will personally see to it that every person wishing or attempting to wish a happy cake day is verbally harassed until they delete their account.
@remindme@mstdn.social june 14
Hold up we can set reminders with a Mastodon bot here?! Yo, ActivityPub is wonderful
I hope everyone wishes you a very happy cake day on your Lemmy cake day. Everyone deserves to be celebrated.
Cake days were by far reddit’s most unproductive and inane tradition
Ah yes, the most unproductive and inane of all of Reddit’s traditions. Oh the hate subs? Pfft, nothing on those dastardly cake days. /s
No but seriously, it’s not a big deal. It’s just an occasional comment about “happy cake day”. Kinda hope you’re being hyperbolic, but I’ve seen enough comments like this that I thought it worth replying to anyways.
I legitimately think reddit would be better if everyone who used the phrase “cake day” was permanently IP banned from the service. And hate subs aren’t really a reddit tradition, more a general Internet thing, but go off I guess. Also, fuck the S, it’s the second most unproductive and inane reddit tradition
Also, fuck the S, it’s the second most unproductive and inane reddit tradition
I knew you’d say that! Did you know that the /s isn’t for you? Turns out, there are other people on the internet, some of whom have trouble with sarcasm, who really appreciate having these redundancies built into the text. Wow!
You’re not special. Neither am I. The more exalted you act, the harder reality will fight you to put you in your place. Your comfort is not exalted above mine or anyone else’s. What I’m trying to say is that, rather than making Reddit/Lemmy an echo chamber of your own design, we need to think about what is good for the community. I see no reason why cake days are anything more than a minor annoyance, and I’ve pointed out how the /s can benefit some people. The common ground in your analysis is that it pisses you off. What about everyone else?
There’s all sorts of shit I’m not at all interested in seeing, but I’m not going to advocate we ban it. I’ll just block the community if it’s that much of a problem.
IMO the /s serves as a great litmus test to suss out jackasses who lack empathy. I’m sorry if I sound jaded, but that’s just because I am jaded from seeing the same solipsism time and time again on Reddit.
Can we all collectively agree to ignore this shit? I always hated cAkE dAy, I had no idea when mine was, but I would log off for the day after the first person said it to me.
At least offer the option to hide it on your profile(do we even have those here?).
I joined Lemmy 3 years ago and my cake day is in… wait for it… June like the rest of you!
The cake is a lie.
