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Today is the first Lemmy cake day for @supakaity and myself, which means that it's a year since Blåhaj Lemmy went live!

At the time, it was pretty much a two (one) person instance that Kaity spun up as a side project when I mentioned that I was enjoying Lemmy.

Back then the threadiverse was super quiet, and Blåhaj Lemmy was only really used by me. Sign ups were open, but everyone that wanted to use Lemmy was already set up on other instances, so we didn't get many signs ups, and those that did join tended to stop using their accounts, because the Threadiverse was so quiet.

And then Reddit happened and things have never been the same since! Mass sign ups, technical struggles with our rapid and unexpected growth, inter instance dramas, it was a very interesting few months!

But now, after the teething issues, we have an active, vibrant and inclusive queer community that has eclipsed Blåhaj Zone itself!

Thank you to everyone that has been a part of that! And here's to our next year!

Feliz año a todes!

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

Happy cake day -- congrats, and thanks for all you and Kaity do!