I was in it every year till the very end lol
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27 minutesI did it 3 years in a row, lots of research (had a custom jigsaw puzzle made for one)… I got crap in return, like, on person got me a (tiny!) lego set… the others were just garbage. I think someone sent me a pair of unboxed figures from some anime…so yeah, it’s a good idea, wouldn’t mind giving it a try again, but … eh
- benno@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 hours
if someone actually makes this for fedi: please don’t slop it and provide e2e encryption for the addresses
- LordCrom@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
I stopped secret santa after 2 years in a row of not getting a gift. People would sign up to get free stuff essentially and never send out anything. Kinda ruined it for me to be reminded that people are generally shitty
- anewfox@lemmy.zipEnglish4 hours
oh boy consumerist holiday bullshit. just what i wanted to keep when i left reddit.
- chuckleslord@lemmy.worldEnglish3 hours
Spirit of giving can be consumerist bullshit, but that’s only if you don’t take it on regular walks and get it plenty of sunlight.
I signed up for the Reddit secret Santa once like a decade ago. Spent a bunch of time researching what to get, and made a really thoughtful gift bag of candy and toys from Western Canada based on what my recipient told me he liked.
The person who got me as their recipient sent me a $5 Amazon comic book for a video game I’ve never played. It looked and felt like the grocery store fliers you get in the mail.
Oh and whoever I sent my gift to claimed he never received it.
- 2 hours
Did the same, but got nothing in return. First and last time.
- CannonFodder@lemmy.worldEnglish7 hours
I sent a nice package, and I received one. It was a wooden puzzle box. I’m pretty good at puzzles but it’s stumped me; I can’t open it. That was years ago. It’s still sitting on my bookshelf. I can hear there’s something inside, but I can’t get in and I refuse to force it. My daughter looked up instructions but still couldn’t do it - says maybe it was sabotaged. So unsatisfying but wonderful.
- Dagnet@lemmy.worldEnglish6 hours
What if inside of it is a pendrive with a bitcoin wallet worth 100 million
- radagast@lemmy.worldEnglish4 hours
I had the same type of experience. On a whole people are shit and try to take advantage of each other at every opportunity
- TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish10 hours
Be the change you want to see. Reddit Secret Santa was always a pretty big logistical undertaking, it would take effort to make a Fediverse one.
Also Fediverse users might be less keen on the idea generally, as it involves personal information and addresses. A very cynical take is that harvesting this data was the real purpose of the Reddit SS, which can’t really be ruled out.
- dfyx@piefed.socialEnglish9 hours
Have you considered https://givin.gifts/? They see themselves as the unofficial successor of redditgifts (they even let you import redditgifts gallery posts back when they were still online). They opened their Happy Holidays 2026 signups a couple of days ago and any premium user could also create a custom fediverse Secret Santa exchange.
I took part in every givin.gifts Happy Holidays exchange since redditgifts shut down and I’m happy with it. If there are any problems with your gifter, their team is really invested in smoothing things out and getting you a rematch if needed.
- 9 hours
There’s always boardgamegeek.com’s Secret Santa, too. Though, this year’s already closed to new registrants. 😅
There is a German one on feddit.org every year. It’s a small community though. !wichtel_unter@feddit.org
- eleijeep@piefed.socialEnglish9 hours
You have to let go of the past. You can enjoy your memories, but you can never re-live them.
- cm0002@lemy.lolEnglish11 hours
Years ago Reddit had a sister site called Reddit secret Santa where Redditors could sign up to be matched with other Redditors as an online global secret Santa and you could write down your interests, likes/dislikes, hobbies, fav shows, movies, food etc.
It was pretty neat, I ended up with a lot of foreign nic-nacks and snacks because I would sign up for worldwide all the time
- TWeaK@feddit.ukEnglish10 hours
Secret Santa is where a group of people all get given the name of one other person, and they have to buy them a Christmas gift in secret. Someone else will buy them a gift, but no one (usually) knows who got them their gift.
Reddit Secret Santa was just the same, but on reddit, and instead of being among a small group of local friends (eg an office) it was done internationally.
- Rentlar@lemmy.caEnglish10 hours
I might be able to organize one for Canada for our lemmy.ca, piefed.ca and sh.itjust.works (and other Fediverse server users who live in Canada) peeps…
I’m not sure who would be comfortable with sharing the address attached to their real name or username on here? I move around too much to be able to organize collecting everything in a PO box and sending it to people, it would rely more on giving random people another user’s address and people directly shipping to each other…
- cm0002@lemy.lolEnglish10 hours
who would be comfortable with sharing the address attached to their real name or username on here?
Yes I’ve thought about organizing something myself but always get caught thinking about this, everyone here seems more privacy minded than reddit ever was.
Personally, I already have a PO box for random shit so wouldn’t mind but yea that’s just another barrier to entry that could hamper interest
- cm0002@lemy.lolEnglish11 hours
Years ago Reddit had a sister site called Reddit secret Santa where Redditors could sign up to be matched with other Redditors as an online global secret Santa and you could write down your interests, likes/dislikes, hobbies, fav shows, movies, food etc.
It was pretty neat, I ended up with a lot of foreign nic-nacks and snacks because I would sign up for worldwide all the time
