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Shoutout to our hard-working maintainers, first of all.

Wanted to open a space for the community to discuss this aspect of marketing/identity.

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[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 45 minutes ago (1 children)

Chose the instance because of it being the first one that I found that wasn't overwhelmed by new sign-ups of refugees from the sub place. Stay because of the name.

[–] brbposting@sh.itjust.works 1 points 42 minutes ago

It’s stayed true!

[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

What's the polite way to call someone a lil bitch. Genuinely curious because I wanna be PC but also an asshole. Anyway the creature in the post is a lil bitch ass

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 37 minutes ago* (last edited 37 minutes ago)

What's the polite way to call someone a lil bitch. Genuinely curious because I wanna be PC but also an asshole. Anyway the creature in the post is a lil bitch ass

I believe that the most socially acceptable way would be (and remember that it's an example, and not directed at you):

"fuck you, and your lil bitch ass attitude. You don't know your father because he never even liked you, your mother blows strangers for bags of gummy bears and validation, and your ears look weird"

[–] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 27 points 5 hours ago

As someone who works with a marketing department for a living, please don’t ruin this with marketing.

[–] IncongruousMonkey@aussie.zone 20 points 6 hours ago

Fuck them. Variety of thought is why I'm here. The tankies suck, but I think of them as a palate cleanser after the right wing crap in mainstream media.

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 6 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Would a URL shortener work better for sharing Lemmy links/instances?

[–] howrar@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 hour ago

You want the url to look less suspicious, not more.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 32 points 8 hours ago

This is sh.itjust.works, not fragile.nitpicker.justworks AWOO AWOO AWOO

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 15 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Isnt that the point? Dont like it, use another instance. The point of federation is that you can choose the website you use without choosing the group of people you interact with. Thats why it should be more common. I dont want to lose contact with people because they wanna use messenger or snapchat. I have to use both on a daily basis and i hate it.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 8 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Yeah you can choose the instance your profile is on or where your browsing but you can't choose what instance a post was made on. If I see a meme on lemmy and want to share it with a friend who doesn't know about lemmy depending on how I get the link it could either be for the cached version on my instance or the "actual" link on the instance where it was posted. It seems the default behavior on the web ui for the share button is to do the cached version but depending what client you use this can be different.

It makes adoption harder if when people actually do try to spread posts the person on the other end is afraid to click it.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 4 points 1 hour ago

The whole point of federation is that content is coming from all sorts of different sources all with different levels of trust.

The default sharing behavior should be the cached version of a post, because the instance you’re on should be trusted to defederated from harmful instances and so that trust should carry over to those you interact with.

[–] dragonfucker 5 points 2 hours ago

You should pick an instance you'd be happy for your friends to see in the links you share them, and send them your local links instead of the poster's instance link.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 25 points 9 hours ago

How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 33 points 10 hours ago

I might be too autistic to care about the prejudices other people might have about the urls

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 134 points 13 hours ago (3 children)

chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 32 points 13 hours ago

Same here. If people don't like it, fuckem 🤷‍♂️. I'll find it all the funnier because of it.

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 19 points 13 hours ago

The name says it all!

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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 69 points 12 hours ago

If people can't handle the word shit, they probably shouldn't be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 45 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I'm sympathetic... I'm not sure I'd be willing to share a sh.itjust.works link to my company #general slack channel.

Though that is far from the biggest problem Lemmy has for adoption. Many communities are simply flooded with 15yr old tankies.

[–] ryathal@sh.itjust.works 30 points 12 hours ago

I wouldn't share a reddit link in that scenario either, but it's a decent point.

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 63 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (3 children)

I Iike both slrpnk and blahaj but it's not like their domain names are magically not also part of this alphabet soup they're talking about.
It's... kinda the point of federation and decentralization.
Sure, Reddit or Facebook have brand recognition, they're also centralized corpo garbage.

If a blahaj user wants to share a SJW post, but finds the sjw domain untasteful, they can also just share their instance's URL for said post.

[–] newproph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

lol I hadn't seen the acronymized instance name. was the fact that it's sjw intentional?

[–] Klaymore@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

I was there all those years ago...

The owner had the domain itjust.works, and was in some large thread asking what subdomain they should use, and some genius said "sh".

[–] newproph@sh.itjust.works 1 points 38 minutes ago

beautiful instance lore

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

I started on lemmy.ml because I thought it was “the default one” to some extent. Learned that was a mistake pretty fast. Glad I found this one.

[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 11 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

I think the same thing is why lemmy.world is as big as it is. "Well that must be the default one, it says lemmy and it's for the whole world."

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 hours ago

It's very inviting! Unless you want to say anything bad about anybody for any reason.

Can't imagine that'll come up.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 17 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Amazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 16 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

I think most (especially mobile) clients simply don't have this option and will always copy/share the "fedi link" - the url where the content is canonically hosted. all other URLs are simply cached representations of the original content.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 11 points 11 hours ago (3 children)

Boost offers both pretty readily.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 hour ago

I think it's just for comments?

I've been wanting the same for posts for some time now

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The default Web UI as well, the link icon is using your instance, the fediverse icon gives the commenter/poster's instance link

Honestly, that's one of the things I like most about lemmy.
The web UI just works fine in a mobile browser. I was so used to garbage sites going out of their way to gimp the mobile experience (to push you into their app) that I had forgotten how pleasant it was to just use a browser for this.
Multiple tabs, ublock origin, bookmarks, etc.
I appreciate that there are apps available, but it's nice not needing an app.

[–] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 44 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Literally joined because of the name

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 13 points 11 hours ago

Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb

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[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 13 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ciapatri@sh.itjust.works 13 points 8 hours ago

Shhhh... It just. works.

I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 16 points 12 hours ago

"oh no, swear words! can't share this now!"

this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 14 points 12 hours ago

The internet is serious business.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 24 points 14 hours ago

It is an an immune system against the normies.

I am dead serious. I think it's a good idea. It won't last forever before they think it's cool and start adopting it, but it'll work for a while.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 12 points 12 hours ago

Hmm, I like it here.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 18 points 13 hours ago

As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.

I'll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 hours ago

I won't go so far as to use the word "normie" like this is 4chan, but I will say: I think it's fine. I'd rather have slow growth, thanks. I'm not the arbiter of what kind of users we should attract or anything, but if they have a problem with our silly name I don't want to hang out with them.

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.

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