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.)
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.
I’m mostly thankful 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 autumn, 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 that the best is yet to come for us, but I’m already very proud of what we have 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
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 truly grateful to be a member of sh.itjust.works. Thank you so much for this service.
Bon anniversaire et merci beaucoup!
Its been great, thanks for being willing to navigate all the federation drama and day to day admin work. Here’s to another year :)
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 like the funny shenanigans like the whole no poop and beans stuff. Those little things make it a bit interesting.
Enjoying the stability of sh.itjust.works after the initial migration and like being part of a Canadian instance.
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!
Kersploosh, mon pomplemousse merveilleuse.
Thanks for having me and keeping the place nice. Here’s to more years to come.
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!
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."
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!
