this post was submitted on 08 May 2024
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[–] [email protected] 71 points 6 months ago (4 children)

Everyone should post beans

[–] [email protected] 40 points 6 months ago

And not poop for 3 days

[–] [email protected] 35 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You want beans? I'll give you all the beans you can handle...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Look, the rewards outweigh the risks so its work it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

Lemmings welcoming another Rexxitor, circa June 2023.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago

How soon we forget Lemmy’s first big meme.

3 days, no poop.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 months ago

Toss a coin to your server. Oh community of plenty.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I was wondering that, actually. Many instances predate the Rexodus, but a lot of them sprung up around the same time as a result of that.

Trying to think of some way to celebrate on my instance. Maybe a birthday hat on my site icon for the day? lol

[–] [email protected] 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Replace the website with a picture of beans.

On second thought, don't do that

[–] [email protected] 11 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I've seen the reference a lot, but I don't understand it. At this point, I'm too afraid to ask. lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 24 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Oh, how about that? I say we get drunk. Day drink! Day drink and post stupidly!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I totally forgot Ming-Na Wen was in that.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

I didn't even recognize her, but as soon as I heard her voice it was clear. :-)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

For me it was Tuesday

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source; check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago

Act natural. Got it.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Let's name it a Beans Day instead of a Cake Day.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 19 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Went to look and you're right, June 14, the exact day Boost for reddit stoped working. Now ai use boost for lemmy! :)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Shucks, I originally joined beehaw but they were blocking too many sites, and switched on September. Ruined my true cake day

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

That's okay, changing instances at least once is part of the experience

[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

I assume I will forget to make myself a cakeday meme like I did every year I was on Reddit. Seems appropriate as a celebration.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Let's let Reddit Things die with Reddit.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 6 months ago

Jehovah's Witness tier argument

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago (2 children)

Maybe it could be specific to each user?

Few ideas

  • a community for people to post in on their cake day, where they can comment on some aspect of their life that's improved in the last year / something they're grateful for

  • if you come across a cake day account, pop into their history and comment on something you find interesting

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Note to self—don't make any comments on cake day

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

The latter sounds great!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (2 children)

How about nothing? The happy cake day comments were even more annoying than "this" comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Ah, complaining about the culture of the site was my favorite part of reddit culture

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

this place isn't what it used to be

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Lemmy wish you a Happy Cakeday! May your post counts be high and your comments be gold.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

How about denim day? Bean jean day? Thigh high day? Cake is a lie, let's celebrate real linux twinks.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Canvas event?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Mine's June 13th. One more month and I won't have posted anything on reddit for a full year.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Why is that a thing?

Same energy as a store giving me a birthday email.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You must be fun at parties.

Birthday parties to be precise.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Are these birthday parties where we sit around selling each other the latest MLM garbage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Wow it's almost been a year already?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

It sure has. I knew it had been a while but didn't realize how close till we entered into May.