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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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[–] Mandy@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

yeah, who would ever be on such an instance
haha

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 185 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 42 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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

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[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago

The name says it all!

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[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 week ago (4 children)

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

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[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 82 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (11 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.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Amazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 25 points 1 week 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 20 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Boost offers both pretty readily.

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[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week ago (2 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."

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[–] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 63 points 1 week ago

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 56 points 1 week ago (19 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 35 points 1 week ago

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

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[–] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 52 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Literally joined because of the name

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week 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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[–] bitwolf@lemmy.one 49 points 1 week ago (1 children)

sh.itjust.works is my fav instance domain name too 😅

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 20 points 1 week ago

Hello,

I see you are on lemmy.one, do you know that your instance admin seems to have been missing for the last few months?

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 44 points 1 week ago

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

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 week ago (6 children)

How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.

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[–] Burghler@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 week ago (4 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 16 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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

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"

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[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] IncongruousMonkey@aussie.zone 37 points 1 week 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.

[–] BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works 31 points 1 week 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.

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[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 29 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] ciapatri@sh.itjust.works 17 points 1 week ago

Shhhh... It just. works.

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

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 28 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works 23 points 1 week ago (5 children)

"I can't link this, it doesn't fit within my corporate values!"

Yeah that's why I'm here. The name makes this place much more difficult for corpo scum to infest it.

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[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 week ago

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

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

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 20 points 1 week ago

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

this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 19 points 1 week 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 15 points 1 week ago (3 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.

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[–] tumblechinchilla@sh.itjust.works 18 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As a new person to lemmy and the fediverse concept as a whole, when I was looking for an instance to join it was the unique URL that drew me here. And the fact it's run by a fellow wargoose. I can see why people would dislike the URL though. So far I like it here and hope it doesn't change.

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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago

The internet is serious business.

Eh, I chose this instance because it was one of the top 5 or so, not because of the name. I would probably hesitate to share a link from this instance, but honestly, I don't do that anyway, I generally just share links to actual articles linked here.

So for me, it's really a non-issue. I have much larger concerns about how Lemmy works in general than naming of any one site, such as the one mentioned in the OP (no indication from domain name that it's a Lemmy instance, one instance lagging on updates can break when viewed from other instances, etc). So to me, it's going to stay niche because the user experience kind of sucks.

[–] NicolaHaskell@lemmy.world 16 points 1 week ago (8 children)

The anti-gtld propaganda is spicy hot lately, anything non-.com is a keyboard rage trigger.

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[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago

Hmm, I like it here.

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