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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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[–] humancrayon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] renrenPDX@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] IncongruousMonkey@aussie.zone 9 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 hours ago

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

[–] AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Not_mikey@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 hours ago

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.

[–] Oni_eyes@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 hours ago

How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.

[–] Korrok@lemmy.blahaj.zone 27 points 6 hours ago

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

[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 118 points 9 hours ago (3 children)

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

[–] Marafon@sh.itjust.works 29 points 9 hours ago

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

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 17 points 9 hours ago

The name says it all!

[–] actionjbone@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 hours ago

Same, came here to say this.

[–] jwiggler@sh.itjust.works 59 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] atzanteol@sh.itjust.works 36 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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@sh.itjust.works 26 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] Shizrak@sh.itjust.works 39 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Literally joined because of the name

[–] spankinspinach@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago

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

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 4 points 9 hours ago

It is a decent normie filter lol

They can join lemmy.world for regime sponsored front

[–] InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works 51 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (3 children)

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.

[–] newproph@sh.itjust.works 2 points 53 minutes ago

lol I hadn't seen the acronymized instance name. was the fact that it's sjw intentional?

[–] WolfLink@sh.itjust.works 11 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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."

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 14 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Amazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.

[–] Nothing4You@programming.dev 13 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] FrostyTrichs@walledgarden.xyz 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Boost offers both pretty readily.

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 7 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] DreadPirateShawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 9 hours ago (1 children)
[–] ciapatri@sh.itjust.works 10 points 4 hours ago

Shhhh... It just. works.

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

[–] ohellidk@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 hours ago

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

this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 12 points 8 hours ago

The internet is serious business.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@ponder.cat 22 points 10 hours 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.

[–] nyahlathotep@sh.itjust.works 6 points 7 hours ago

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.

[–] FreshLight@sh.itjust.works 10 points 8 hours ago

Hmm, I like it here.

[–] vulgarcynic@sh.itjust.works 16 points 9 hours ago

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

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

[–] praise_idleness@sh.itjust.works 8 points 8 hours ago

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

[–] LostXOR@fedia.io 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 56 minutes ago

Yeah, why not?

So they don't need to click something to see the thing, they just get it?

[–] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 9 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.

[–] Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works 4 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

You could always use lemmy.org

[–] curry@programming.dev 3 points 5 hours ago

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.

[–] sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works 6 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

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.