Happy cake day, sh.itjust.works!
Many of us are having our cake days, or are close to them. What were your highlights over the past year? Did you enjoy or appreciate a particular community, user, trend, or something else? We want to hear about it!
Joyeux anniversaire, sh.itjust.works!
Beaucoup d’entre nous ont leur anniversaire, ou sont sur le point de l’avoir. Quels ont été vos moments forts au cours de l’année écoulée? Avez-vous apprécié une communauté, un utilisateur, une tendance ou autre chose en particulier? Nous voulons en savoir plus!
(I apologize if the French translation is bad. I am not a native speaker, and relied on Google Translate.)
Thanks for having me and keeping the place nice. Here’s to more years to come.
J’ai rejoins Lemmy le 1 juillet 2023, ce qui veut dire que le mois prochain ça fera 1 an que je suis sur cette plateforme. Au début j’etait sur l’instance feddit.de, mais depuis quelques temps l’instance est devenu quasi-inutilisable(impossibilité de l’utiliser sur pc, accessible uniquement sur mobile). Après 8 mois d’utilisation j’ai decidé de migrer vers sh.itjust.works étant donné que c’etait une instance francophone.
Hello, n’hésite pas à nous rejoindre sur !forumlibre@jlai.lu !
For me it’s been the stability of our sever.
It’s run by a private person on nothing but goodwill and interest, which I was afraid would only last a few months. He (and the other admins) have done an incredible job keeping things running smoothly and with a very level headed approach to content filtering and general rules.
You all deserve a massive round of applause from all of us benefitting with zero work.
Seriously. I know the user base is not the biggest or on the bigger side for that matter, but the downtime is just incredible.
I initially moved out from lemmy.world because of constant downtime(which is very much understandable) and I’ve been very impressed with the downtime since.
Big thanks to the instance admins on here for giving me a home away from Reddit over the past year!
Highlights? Watching my communities grow from nothing to fairly active over the past year.
Lemmy as a whole has also grown and stabilized nicely. I went from browsing /all out of boredom to having difficulty keeping up with the posts in my subscribed feed.
Hear’s to the next year!
I’m mostly thankful that we were able to retain so many users for a full year. I think we only ever peaked somewhere around 4k monthly users in the late summer, and have been maintaining around 2.5k active users for several months now. There were a bunch of people that left in the first few months but I’m glad that we still have many familiar faces who stuck around.
I expect the best is yet to come for us, but I’m already very proud of what we’ve built here. Way too many highlights to mention, but one that comes to mind was when our very own @kersploosh@sh.itjust.works singlehandedly halved the bot population on Lemmy.
Didn’t remember that episode, that was impressive
My highlights were watching communities slowly blossom and to see more activity in the comment sections. More variety, more interaction, more content. Getting to recognize users, learning new things and trying to share a thing or two as well. It’s been a great experience overall, and I hope to see you all around on the best server ever next year as well!
❤️
I finally blocked enough communities to not see big tittied anime or Linux every 2 posts .
This is the way
Beans.
Don’t forget the Beef Stroganoff!
Jeans.
But no aero machines.
Beans, jeans, and Star Trek memes.
There’s the real joke I couldn’t find
I’m not sure when exactly my cake day is but have been hanging out with you shitters a while and truly dig it here.
So much of the community interaction and openness to real dialog and sharing reminds me of the internet I grew up on. Thanks to each and every one of you.
Favorite moment: following discussions on the element channel and actively having a voice in defederating from communities that didn’t align with the goals of our community. Being empowered to shape what this place was gonna look like really drew me in and made me want to keep coming back!
Cheers y’all!
Vulgar
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I don’t have one particular highlight, I just love being here. Good admins, good people, good discussions, people are pretty chill. What’s not to like?
sh.it.heads 4 lyfe, yo!
Nothing too eventful to highlight specifically, but being here has been nice, so there’s that.
Hopefully this will last! To infinity and beyond!
Edit: Shit, now that you mention it, this account’s about to have its cake day as well! Didn’t realize I’ve been here pretty much from the beginning!
I don’t interact a whole lot, but when i do i’ve been having a pretty nice experience, thanks there everyone!
And yeah, happy cake day sh.itjust.works!
Time flies 🥳 hopefully this community continues to grow into something beautiful!
I’m very happy here. I joined during the reddit blackouts, and honestly I picked it because of the name and was comforted by The Dude and later his deputies’ soft hand on the community.
I mostly browse /all, but I do spend time on /local to see my neighbors and it’s fun to watch the communities grow!
Same, I like it here a lot. Kersploosh is great and listens before he decides. I really like the non-addictive quality of Lemmy in general, but specifically this instance. I check it in the morning and sometimes check a little later in the day, it’s nice.
The absence of an algorithm, funnily enough, encourages me to spend more time here. Reddit, Facebook, Insta, etc., all utilize algorithms that feel as if someone is attempting to actively distract and sell you something and that quickly becomes stressful. So many distractions vying for mindspace saturates my attention and makes me, personally, feel less human.
Thank you to all of our lovely admins! It wouldn’t be possible without you!
Things were great when I first joined Lemmy a year ago – it truly felt like a community – but then unfortunately some of the same toxic behavior started to creep in.
I’ve since learned that if I avoid the two largest Lemmy instances, plus some of the more sketchy ones like Beehaw and Hexbear, for the most part it’s all good.
Honestly when I first joined, I was thinking it was gonna be a week or two at most before I’d go back to Reddit. But I’ve been impressed by the community and have grown to love it. It feels so nice to be able to comment on a major news story and actually have people respond, instead of just having your comment get lost in a sea of thousands of reddit comments.
Ah yea, the “you missed the first 20 minutes window of this post so your comment will be lost into the void”.
Don’t miss it one bit.Haha yeah and for breaking news you could just forget about it. I can’t imagine being in a reddit thread when Trump was found guilty the other day. It’d be like shouting at a thunderstorm."
