Happy cake day @ruud@lemmy.world ! Appreciate you hosting all us Reddit Refugees when the Reddit Third-Party API Exodus happened one year ago! And big shout out to you and the other volunteer mods and admins, across multiple instances, that put in their free time to stabilize Lemmy World during the massive uptick in user registration, handling the codebase, the upgrade challenges, the creepy CSAM bad actors last year, and saw us through all the intermittent downtimes we had periodically. Lemmy World has been super stable and reliable since then.

Reminder to all reading this: if you can, chip in and help with server costs for this valuable service. Decentralization FTW

[–] theangryseal@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I can’t believe it’s been a year. Damn. I really didn’t think I’d make it. I half worried I’d go crawling back.

My last two comments, one year ago were, “Memmy for Lemmy. Been happy all day.” (though voyager is my app these days) and, “Thank you. I already love it. I hope this is where all of the old heads go.”

That was a response to my introduction to lemmy.world.

I meant it when I said I was leaving. I wasn’t 100% sure I could make it after using Reddit for so long, but here I am.

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 17 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

Happy Cake Day! Mine's in just under a week.

Edit: I'm going to slightly bend (but not break) the unofficial Admin Prime Directive a bit and point out that at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post. Like, what are you even doing here then?

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mine’s in two weeks. Gee, I wonder what happened about one year ago?

[–] ptz@dubvee.org 7 points 5 months ago

Lol, right? Lots of instances are having cake days over the next couple of weeks.

I'm going to have such a hangover when I'm done celebrating all of these lol.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago

at least two people with Lemmy World accounts downvoted this post.

Maybe they don't like the thought of Ruud getting older.

[–] arudesalad@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 months ago

Cake day on my lemmy.world account is in 11 days. Happy cake day to all that migrated!

[–] SorteKanin@feddit.dk 9 points 5 months ago

Happy cake day to all the users who will have it shortly or already did :)

[–] hamid@vegantheoryclub.org 8 points 5 months ago

Congratulations Ruud on an amazing job!

[–] MBM@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago

Only 4 more days to go for me. It's crazy how much lemmy.world has grown since those early days

[–] A_A@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

❤️🍾🥂🍰

[–] Tag365@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

You created this server?

[–] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah, he did.

[–] jelloeater85@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

It's actually a whole team 💗

https://team.lemmy.world

[–] ace_garp@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

I missed this post 2 weeks ago.

A belated happy cake-day Ruud :^)

It's been an enjoyable year, thanks for your hard work.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

Happy Cake Day! 🎉🎈 🎂

[–] NegentropicBoy@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Happy Cake Day and thank you!

[–] Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Happy cake day! June 9th for me, it's been one fast year!

[–] polarpear11@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Wow! I just looked and I'll have my cake day soon too! I really thought it had been 6 months. Time flies.

[–] martinbasic@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

I can't wait to have my first cake here

[–] recursive_recursion@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

Congrats!

Happy cake day!🥳✨

[–] TheGiantKorean@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Happy cake day, friend! Thanks for providing this place for us.

[–] AchtungDrempels@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Happy cake day! Thank you so much for your service.