I miss the reddit secret Santa :(
I was in it every year till the very end lol
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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.
There’s always boardgamegeek.com’s Secret Santa, too. Though, this year’s already closed to new registrants. 😅
You have to let go of the past. You can enjoy your memories, but you can never re-live them.
Sorry, best I can do to s Secret Satan
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.
Well it can happen, but someone would have to organize it
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.
Sounds like a great summary of the reddit experience.
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…
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
There is a German one on feddit.org every year. It’s a small community though. !wichtel_unter@feddit.org
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
i never used reddit. what is reddit secret santa?
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.
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
This is a silly take but I’ve seen (internet) trends come and go, I miss some moments but know there is something else that will pop up to fill the space. There always is.
Yea, it just sticks out for me because it didn’t die because of disinterest as a fading fad, it got shutdown because of corporate enshittification >:(
Let’s have a secret Satan!