I was surprised to visit itjust.works (without the sh.) and find an IT company. How did the url sh.itjust.works come to be, amazing name and all?

    • @this
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      81 year ago

      See https://sh.itjust.works/comment/113002 for the story of sh. Like I said in that comment, I can’t prove I was the one BC I nuked my reddit account, but the tldr is I was being a smartass on reddit and they rolled with it so naturally I had to join this instance, lol.

  • @[email protected]
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    121 year ago

    Haha, well sir: that IT company owns the itjust.works TLD and apparently someone there used the same domain for the instance. Sh is just a subdomain of itjust.works.

    Fine and hilarious folks at itjust.works: get a certificate for your webpage!

    • @carrotOP
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      1 year ago

      If you click on the logo for XIRGO it takes you to a site with a certificate. I think whoever owns XIRGO set up the itjust.works domain for some redirects and decided lemmy would be the best time to use the domain. @TheDude Am i right? <also can someone help me hyperlink/tag the account LOL>

      • @[email protected]
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        31 year ago

        That makes sense. I have a defunct personal business domain that I’ve been thinking of repurposing for an instance.

  • @TheDudeMA
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    61 year ago

    So this has been fixed. itjust.works should redirect properly to sh.itjust.works now

  • Kogasa
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    31 year ago

    I believe I recall reading a thread about Lemmy and someone said “I own the domain itjust.works, suggest a subdomain and I’ll host an instance” and someone replied with “sh.itjust.works.” Then again, I may have hallucinated this.