According to wikipedia the subreddit blackout started on June 12, do you think that date qualify to marked it ?
It is clearly July 21st, as shown on the banner of this community.
Every day is fuck u/spez day
Start posting pictures and videos of John Oliver all over the place again…
In my experience, the existing lemmy servers really started taking off from the dozens of active users that were there into the hundreds, with each day after May 31 having exponential growth. By the time Lemmy.world started around June 17, we were into the thousands. This was a huge change many of the users and admins weren’t expecting, and the servers were barely ready for.
I think it started in earnest the day of his AMA, whenever that was.
It actually started long before that. Fuck U Spez was already a meme when all of the API/third-party app stuff took off, but at that point, it was still mostly a holdover from previous examples of Spez being a shithead. The thing that really gave it (new) life was that AMA.
Ah yes the AMA where he made everything even worse for himself, especially by trying to slander the Apollo’s dev. That seems to be on 09 June 2023.