Feedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing

yeah, who would ever be on such an instance
haha

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

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

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.

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

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.

Literally joined because of the name

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

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

How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.

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

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.

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.

"sh! it just works!"

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.

"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.

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

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

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.

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

this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!

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.

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

The internet is serious business.

Hmm, I like it here.

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.

You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.

You can link from almost any other instance. This is a skill issue.

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".

Does he know that x.com is literally one of the biggest website on the Internet?

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.

Would a URL shortener work better for sharing Lemmy links/instances?

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 thought it was for shell script aficionados.

Cross-post the thing to another instance, then share that link.

Are people actually sharing fediverse links directly? I just save the image or copy the link the post is linking to, and share that.

Could build a reverse proxy to mask Lemmy links behind something that seems more legit

You could always use lemmy.org