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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  • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Marafon@sh.itjust.works
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      5 months ago

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

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
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        5 months ago

        Yeah, but at the end of the day we either want Lemmy to grow, or we don’t. And if we make it difficult or awkward for people to use Lemmy, then we’re shooting ourselves in the foot if our goal is to grow Lemmy’s user base.

        • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
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          5 months ago

          this is just my opinion but taking away personality to appeal to a wider audience is one of the worst things modern megacorps do, the strength of the fediverse is the power it gives to individuals and communities over corporations with money, and so personality is one of the things the fediverse needs to maintain to succeed

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    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.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    5 months ago

    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.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      5 months ago

      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.

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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        5 months ago

        When you grow up you’ll realize that sometimes you need to consider the attitudes and feelings of others rather than just “fuck 'em”.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          If someone’s feelings are hurt by a silly url, it’s me that should grow up? We’re not talking about trigger-urls like r*pe-is-fun.org or similar.

          I have not met a single person since the beginning of the internet that would have his/her feelz hurt by sh.itjust.works.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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            5 months ago

            If someone’s feelings are hurt by a silly url, it’s me that should grow up?

            Yes. It’s you who should realize that other people’s perspectives, thoughts, opinions, etc. matter. It’s something one typically learns as they grow into adulthood.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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          5 months ago

          Doesn’t change my point. Even worse. How could anyone be hurt in their feelz by that harmless word? If that already hurts them, this world will be no fun place for them to exist

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
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            5 months ago

            Uhh… My friend. They said it was a work chat. Regardless of your opinion if swearing I think you should understand that work places are generally more conservative with regards to swear words.

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
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              5 months ago

              I dunno where you work, but that’s a place i would not want to work if i had to work at all. Jeez, i would leave such a place in an instant…

  • nickwitha_k (he/him)@lemmy.sdf.org
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    5 months ago

    I’m so used to tech and Linux stuff that I first thought that it was a special interest instance for shell scripting and TUIs. Now, it’s a toss up between “shit just works” and “sh! It just works”.

    • grandkaiser@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      A lot of people have uneducated opinions on gtlds, but as a professional DNS engineer: fuck gtlds. They’re literally corporate cash grabs that make my work much, much harder and actively make the Internet worse.

  • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
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    5 months ago

    “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.