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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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.
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.
This is sh.itjust.works, not fragile.nitpicker.justworks AWOO AWOO AWOO
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.
I might be too autistic to care about the prejudices other people might have about the urls
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 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.
The internet is serious business.
Cross-post the thing to another instance, then share that link.
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.
Hmm, I like it here.
"oh no, swear words! can't share this now!"
this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!
If people can't handle the word shit, they probably shouldn't be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
"sh! it just works!"
Shhhh... It just. works.
I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.
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.
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
You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.
chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
Same, came here to say this.
The name says it all!
Same here. If people don't like it, fuckem 🤷♂️. I'll find it all the funnier because of it.
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.
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."
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.
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.
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I'll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
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.
