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Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 83 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (4 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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

This comment would be more relevant a year down the line if perspectives shifted and users begged for sanitization, but:

Is it technically challenging or financially costly or otherwise problematic to mirror content to another subdomain, or domain mask or something? I thought of this after seeing oldsh.itjust.works:


try.itjust.works

leg.itjust.works

share.itjust.works

subm.itjust.works

(2 & 4 don’t work as well as the current split word)

No reply requested unless it seems like it would be fun/interesting to type one

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I'm not an expert on the specific of this, but changing the domain for the UI (as in oldsh.itjust.works) seems a lot easier than changing the domain for the backend, which includes federation with all other instances.
I don't know of any way to change the federated stuff without breaking pretty much everything and starting over.
Maybe there is and I just don't know about it, or maybe there could be an easier way at some point.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

We're all someone's SJW.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks ago (3 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".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Yeah I recall the thread. There were quite a few suggestions none of which I can remember now. Sh was just so good.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

all those years ago

Is it that many? I thought the server was younger than 2...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Yeah it was a little over a year ago lol

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago

beautiful instance lore

[–] [email protected] 22 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks 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."

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

I may be remembering it wrong, but I think world was one of the few accepting people without a referral during the reddit migration. That's why I use .world. I also don't really understand federation besides it means I can see other instances, but I only barely know what that means. There were a lot of "what is the fediverse" posts when I first joined, and they were helpful, but maybe too simplified?

I also remember thinking .world and .ml were the defaults when I started.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 weeks ago

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

Can't imagine that'll come up.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Amazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

Boost offers both pretty readily.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 weeks ago

Thunder:

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

I think it's just for comments?

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

It works for posts on the default UI

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Thunder has it for posts and comments.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 week ago

Ditto, i thought i was going nuts, but yeah its only for comments, not for sharing a post

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 weeks 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

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

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.