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Damn, missed my chance to have it be a date I'd remember for a change.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I am genuinely excited to see how many people stick around post June 30th. If this place stays as vibrant as it has then this is my new home for sure.

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

When all this API shit started kicking off I didn't really like the look of lemmy, but now it looks like the best. KBin was fun for a bit but felt kind of chaotic, plus not having posts vanish after upvoting/viewing the comments was a death sentene for me. The other alternatives are just shit IMO.

Plus looks like a lot of app devs are lemmyheads, Memmy has been great after installing it today. There's no way i'm using the reddit app post June so yea...Lemmy all the way, cause everything else blows for content consumption.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

You can try Liftoff! as well [email protected]. I've been enjoying it :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I have Kbin, Tildes, Lemmy and a few others just to poke around, but I find I spend the most time here. I even went and found a script that makes Lemmy look a bit like Reddit and I am perfectly happy.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Kinda gutted to have lost my June 4th cakeday due to fleeing from Beehaw. Getting in before July 1st still makes me cool though, right? Right?! 😭

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

We will probably give ourselves some grandiose name like "Founders" All the original lemmy people pre-june2023 gonna get called "early Adopters" like lemmy didn't exist for like 3 or more years and they built it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

exactly

Someone used the term fledditors. That was me. I signed up on the Wednesday to beehaw after the boycott. I started lemmy.world the Sunday after. IDK. I like lemmy.world better, but beehaw is good too.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It's the new boomer generation

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] 5redie8 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

In a couple of years when this place gets big we're gonna sound like boomers too lol

"Back in MY day, you had to use the website unless you wanted to download an app off of github or get a testflight invitation!"

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Jerboa is on the Play Store :)

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mine is June 1st, the first day we heard about the API bullshit. But then Beehaw defederated LW so I had to open an account on LW to follow a couple of communities

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

It's gonna be a big ol' lemmy party around here next summer

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I think I lasted 2 days and stumbled on sub.rehab, thus my Fediverse adventure began

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

My reddit cake day is on April 10th, my birthday. The reason I made an account was because my favorite band was doing an AMA that day.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

We should throw a group party in a year!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I had the same thought this morning! I also wonder if there's a similar phenomenon with older redditors that came from digg. When was that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

as is tradition.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Summer Boomers/June Boomers like me.

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

I hat december the 31st for Eleven years on reddit. Always tried to remember why I created an account on new years eve...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Lonely new years eve, probably found some porn you wanted to save...

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

mine was may 4th... you guess why lol

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Winter down here in Aus. 15th June for me.

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

I actually might remember mine, because o joined here on the first day of the blackout. June 12th. Quit Reddit after 16 years on the 11th, so it's kinda memorable for me. And the 12th of a different month is my birthday, so that helps.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me, I think. Except the related birthday is my mom's.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hey does anybody know if this community is ran by the same people who ran the subreddit

I think that would be epic if so or is this just a clone

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

It's not. This community so far has a single mod, @vatlark.

To quote him from here:

I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn’t find one on Lemmy.

He is apparently holding a vote for new mods.

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