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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This is sh.itjust.works, not fragile.nitpicker.justworks AWOO AWOO AWOO
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!
Same, came here to say this.
If people can't handle the word shit, they probably shouldn't be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
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.
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.
I might be too autistic to care about the prejudices other people might have about the urls
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.
Jeez. It's just a link to just a site. What is the problem with that url? If it's share-worthy, just share. If people don't click it because of "bUt iTs nOt a .CoM!" screw them, bad luck for them. People need to study and pay a lot to be allowed to drive a car, but any technically challenged dildo can use the interwebz without the slightest clue about anything, and is also allowed to voice an opinion about it.
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 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.
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
It is a decent normie filter lol
They can join lemmy.world for regime sponsored front
"sh! it just works!"
Shhhh... It just. works.
I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.
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.
"oh no, swear words! can't share this now!"
this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I'll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
The internet is serious business.
Hmm, I like it here.
You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.
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.
Does he know that x.com is literally one of the biggest website on the Internet?
That's partly why I'm here. I don't want a big place where every normie shows up, and it just becomes facebook. Does this specific sever want to become a mega-platform?
I'd love it if the fediverse as a whole grew to that size. Any individual instance? No. That's kind of the whole point of the fediverse.
Are people actually sharing fediverse links directly? I just save the image or copy the link the post is linking to, and share that.
Yeah, why not? They obviously suck and I did have a couple of "I'm not clicking that, wtf" reactions. Only then do I save and send the image.
Yeah, why not?
So they don't need to click something to see the thing, they just get it?
Cross-post the thing to another instance, then share that link.
You could always use lemmy.org
How do we know that instance will stay afloat though? I see search engines indexing Lemmy already, but they're all scattered with whatever instance they happened to get in touch with.
