Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
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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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.
It’s stayed true!
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
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"
As someone who works with a marketing department for a living, please don’t ruin this with marketing.
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.
Would a URL shortener work better for sharing Lemmy links/instances?
You want the url to look less suspicious, not more.
This is sh.itjust.works, not fragile.nitpicker.justworks AWOO AWOO AWOO
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.
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.
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.
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.
How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.
I might be too autistic to care about the prejudices other people might have about the urls
chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
Same here. If people don't like it, fuckem 🤷♂️. I'll find it all the funnier because of it.
The name says it all!
If people can't handle the word shit, they probably shouldn't be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
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.
I wouldn't share a reddit link in that scenario either, but it's a decent point.
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.
lol I hadn't seen the acronymized instance name. was the fact that it's sjw intentional?
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".
beautiful instance lore
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.
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."
It's very inviting! Unless you want to say anything bad about anybody for any reason.
Can't imagine that'll come up.
Amazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.
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.
Boost offers both pretty readily.
Thunder:
I think it's just for comments?
I've been wanting the same for posts for some time now
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.
Literally joined because of the name
Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb
"sh! it just works!"
Shhhh... It just. works.
I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.
"oh no, swear words! can't share this now!"
this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!
The internet is serious business.
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.
Hmm, I like it here.
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I'll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
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.
You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.
