Seeing more “cake days” pop up lately, it seems we’re approaching (or in) the 1 yr anniversary of the Reddit migration.

It’s kinda sweet actually that we all get this reminder of it with the pickup in “cakedays”.

It reminds of my seeing the wave happen. I was on lemmy before the migration (not a flex, I joined mastodon in the twitter migration and explored the other fediverse platforms around looking for a reddit/forum alternative) … and followed a bunch of communities over on my mastodon account. Early last year many of these communities were fairly quiet (or at least quieter than now) and so I didn’t really see any of them in my mastodon feed. I’d actually forgotten that I’d followed them. I’d heard word about the API stuff over on Reddit, but I knew something was happening when I started seeing more and more posts in my masto feed that confused me … it wasn’t clear where they were coming from. Double checking I’d see that they came from lemmy communities I’d forgotten about … and I realised I was seeing lemmy literally come alive!

All these cakedays are kinda the same thing … a sort of internet equivalent of a weather event or season.