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HomeHello all!
To celebrate Lemmy.zip turning 3 years old, we are once again hosting a small giveaway to say thank you for being here ❤️
We're giving away 3 prizes to 3 lucky winners. This will be 1 x £25 Steam gifts, and 2 x £10 Steam gifts.
The giveaway will be open for 48 hours from 18:00 UTC on the 10th June 2026, to 18:00 UTC on the 12th June 2026. This thread will unlock at 18:00 UTC :)
You can enter by making a comment in this very thread! Your comment can say or be absolutely anything you want (within reason!)
Once you've made a comment, you should get a message back from ZippyBot confirming you've entered and a ticket number. For transparency, at the end of this we'll publish the entry list and ticket numbers.
You must be a Lemmy.zip OR a Piefed.zip user to enter (comments from anyone else will be ignored!) and you will need a Steam account and be happy to send me your username so I can gift you the value via Steam. Your Lemmy.zip/Piefed.zip account must have been created before the 9th June 2026.
At the end of the giveaway, I'll lock the thread and Zippy will pull three random entries. The first username pulled will win the first prize (£25), and the other two users will win the other prizes (£10).
(EDIT: Thanks to @Thordros@hexbear.net there is now a 4th place prize of £10!)
I've put a few FAQs in this spoiler tag if you want to know more:
FAQs - PLEASE READ!
::: spoiler FAQs
- Q) Can anyone enter?
- A) You must be a lemmy.zip user or a Piefed.zip user, have a steam account, and your account must have been created before 9th June 2026
- Q) Can I have a giftcard for a different platform, i.e. xbox or playstation?
- A) Unfortunately not. Those platforms (to my knowledge) don't allow me to purchase a giftcard in the UK and you activate it anywhere in the world. Steam allows currency conversion on gifts.
- Q) How quickly will I get my prize?
- A) Steam requires that someone must be on a user's friend list for 3 days before giftcards can be sent, therefore I will share my Steam profile with the winners (or vice versa) and after 3 days of being friends on Steam, I will send the gift over. (Unless you live in the UK, in which case I can send you a code within 24 hours)
- Q) I think my entry was valid, but I didn't get a reply from Zippybot with my ticket number. What do I do?
- A) Send me a message asap! You can try commenting again too.
- Q) Are user donations funding this?
- A) No, just making it clear here that the donations to Lemmy.zip and PIefed.zip only ever go towards the server and Lemmy.zip infrastructure. The funds for this are coming from my wallet :)
- Q) How does Zippy select the winners?
- A) Zippy randomly shuffles the list of entrants in the DB. It then randomly shuffles the list again in Python. Then it randomly selects 3 winners from that double shuffled list.
- Q) What if something goes wrong?
- A) If for any reason something goes wrong during the giveaway, it will be paused until it can be resumed. If too much time lapses, the giveaway will be restarted.
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I didn't even realize I joined barely over a month after this instance was created! It's always felt like home on .zip :)
Thank you for doing this 🙂
Yay! Good luck everyone :)
Happy cakeday 🍰
Nice, keep up the good work
📡📡📡
Here to say happy birthday! If my post gets picked, give my prize to the top comment
Congrats
it's been 3 years already? man, time flows fast.
Cool!
Happy birthday!!
I didn't even realize this server was less than two months old when I joined. It's been great. Happy to be a part of it!
I had the same thought, lol!
Thank you
Thanks again for keeping this instance running. It's really become a regular comfort for me to scroll through Lemmy, and it's nice to have a positive launching point like .zip has been. 3 years went by so fast!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday!
Aw cool. Thank you
Hi. I don't want to enter anything. Just came here to say congratulations. Here's to the next three years...Cheers!
Happy 3 Years!
I'm really glad this place exists and am very thankful for all the time @Demigodrick@lemmy.zip puts into this instance.
This has been the only instance I've regularly used since the reddit exodus that's stayed open lol; used vlemmy and lemm.ee before they shut down
Contrats ! Happy to see a thriving community. Long live fediverse.
Hype
Hi I would like some money please thank you
Happy birthday! 🎂
Heyoooh happy birthday! Keep up the zipp
Happy birthday! I'm rather new here but I already feel quite at home 🙂
Zipping on by!
Hi!
Su gimtadieniu! 🎂
Congrats! Here's an inspirational quote to keep on hustlin'.
Happy birthday!
Hiii hi thank you so much for hosting for free!
Happu birthday 🎂 this means its my cakeday soon as well.
Happy B-day!!!!
Thank you this is cool
Thanks for running the best instance!
Thanksfor eeverything you do. I'm happy to be a part of the .zip family.
Three years! This server bring some a lot of joy every day. Thank you!!
I love this knid of events and giveaways that you come up with. Congrats on the three years!!!
Yay! It's a fantastic evening here in hte northeastern US and I actually solved today's NY Times Wordle puzzle on try number 3!
happy birthday zip! am so glad i picked lemmy.zip when i did. you guys built something solid here.
Gratulerer med dagen!
Happy Birthday 🎉
I'm not sure how I ended up here, but here I am anyway.
Here's to many more years ahead 🎉
I'm just gonna post a meme I ran across on lemmy
Happy 3 years!
Thanks for hosting! This has been my home since lemm.ee retired and I’ve enjoyed my time here
or be absolutely anything you want (within reason!)
Ooh nice! I joined to lemmy.zip recently. Happy birthday!
How time has flown. Here's to many more!
Thank you for all the hard work! Happy birthday.zip!!
Yayyyy
I can't enter, but I'm really happy for your community.
Happy birthday .zip! Glad to have joined this instance after lemm.ee went down 🫡
Happy birthday to the best Lemmy instance in the entire Fediverse! 🎉
Happy birthday Lemmy.zip!
Thanks for all you do to keep this place running and giving us wrestling nerds a home.
Congrats to 3 years and here’s to many more!
Happy birthday!
Congrats on the three years and hopefully many ahead. Especially for all the work and effort that's been put in to the instance.
Giveaway or not, I’m genuinely happy to see this place thrive after my previous instance closed.
In fact, it feels like you deserve a giveaway, not the other way around.
Thank you for all the effort you’ve put in. There’s surely far more happening behind the scenes than I realise.
Stellar, I say. Stellar!
Happy birthday! I like games!
I've been on this instance (and the Fediverse as a whole) for around 8 months now, and I couldn't be happier here. Keep it up!
Congratulations!
I've really enjoyed being here! I came here for the minimal defederations, stayed for the community. Cheers!
Happy birthday!
🎉 Congratulations!!!
Happy b'day :)
Thank you for allowing an alternative to Reddit
Thanks for providing a comfy home on the internet!
Happy birthday! I'm so happy to have found this insurance.
Zip zip zurray!
Man I love my instance. Here's to three more years, and thanks for being awesome!
Neat! Congrats on 3 years!
A bird can fly, but a fly can't bird.
Here's to another year of dotzip and hopefully many more!
Thank you for hosting such a great instance for us!
Thanks for keeping this instance going and happy three years!
Happy birthday to the coolest instance! 🎉
Best Instance for sure. Thx for all the work everyone!
Congrats on 3 years and thanks for hosting as well as running this giveaway!
Amazing!
absolutely anything!
Came here after lemmee shut down; been loving it. Keep up the good work guys
3 cheers for 3 years!
Hooray!
3 years, so crazy! I need to get back on here more 😂
Hell yeah
Thank you for hosting!
3 years! How time has flown ❤️
Here's to another 3 years (at least)!
Hooray!!
Glad I found this instance!
Congratulations!
It's like in an office when a person whose birthday it is today must bring a cake or something like that :D HB
Happy birthday to lemmy.zip! Much better than lemmy.rar
Did you know snakes have two penises?
Hell yeah!
I am thankful to Lemmy.zip for its hardworking and helpful admins, openness to other instances, and for having a cool name. Congrats on 3 years, here’s to countless more 🥰
🥳 Happy Birthday, .Zip!🎉
🎂🎉🥳
A horse has more than one horsepower.
A horse’s maximum horsepower is around 24HP.
But seriously Happy Birthday Zip! Thank you for all you do. I genuinely love being a part of this community.
Happy birthday!
Woo!
Happy zip-day!
Happy Birthday! and Thank you so much for your constant vigilance and providing us untainted social spaces where we're free to express ourselves without worrying if we're the product.
Congrats! I have nothing but good things to say about how this place is run
Yooo, so happy for all you do, congrats on 3 years! 🎂
Happy Birthday! Too sad my account is 2 months to young. Anyways congratulations 🎉
I think you misread. June 9th 2026, at least 2 days old. So, you should be all good.
Oops 🤦♂️ reading is hard 😅 thanks for clarifying!
Happy Birthday! I was lucky picking Zip 3 years ago, great instance that's well maintained, and still around (unlike a few others that have unfortunately been lost).
Happy birthday Lemmy.zip! Thank you for the opportunity!
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday 🎉
Hey, congrats on the birthday! Thanks for all the work you put in keeping the lights on, I really appreciate it.
Happy birthday, Lemmy.zip! May there be many more prosperous years to a fantastic instance with great people thriving in it! <3
Hell yes. The best instance keeps on truckin
Thanks for hosting this awesome instance!
Congrats on three years and thanks for doing this :^)
Happy birthday! Thanks again for being a wonderful admin!
Happy Birthday lemmy.zip!!!!!!!!!!
Congrats on 3 years. I appreciate all the efforts to keep this instance going.
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Congrats on making it to 3years! Found a great home here after my previous instance shut down
Comment!
Congratulations, to Lemmy.zip and to the upcoming winners! I'm not a member, but I appreciate your hard work and dedication to keeping the servers up and running these past years - you make the fediverse a better place. Thank you, and congratulations again!
Edit: no! Please delete entry #12 (and I'm not eligible anyway)! I just wanted to say thanks and congratulations! :(
Sure you don't want to keep your sneaky entry? ;)
No, but thank you. I honestly just wanted to thank you for all the work you've put in to create and maintain the instance and let the rest of us play here, and congratulate you on your instance's birthday :) Thank you so much for improving the fediverse!
Happy Birthday Lemmy!
HBD!
Cool
Hello, here's my entry :)
The Garden of Eros It is full summer now, the heart of June; Not yet the sunburnt reapers are astir Upon the upland meadow where too soon Rich autumn time, the season’s usurer, Will lend his hoarded gold to all the trees, And see his treasure scattered by the wild and spendthrift breeze … O.W.
🎊🎉
Oh I want to get steam money that I'll never spend!
