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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).
I mean I always migrated Reddit accounts at least yearly too, definitely not on an anniversary. I've always seen it as tied to an account, not a person.