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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  • verity_kindle
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    33 minutes ago

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

  • AItoothbrush@lemmy.zip
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    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.

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

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

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

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    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
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      4 hours ago

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

    • spankinspinach
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      Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb

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

    • Maalus@lemmy.world
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      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.

    • ciapatri
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      42 minutes ago

      Shhhh… It just. works.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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      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
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        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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        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.

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    “oh no, swear words! can’t share this now!”

    this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!