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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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 hours ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 hours 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".

[–] [email protected] 37 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago

Hello,

I see you are on lemmy.one, do you know that your instance admin seems to have been missing for the last few months?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours 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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

"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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

Oh there's plenty of corpo spam accounts being made, even here.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago) (1 children)

Most of us know to expect this to stay another largely pointless, niche project with little broad impact.

We're not hitting 100k MAU, we're not improving the internet, we're not dethroning reddit. We're just existing alongside them, in their shadow, with a slow front page of largely mid nonsense that sticks around for a couple days, with several communities' comments mostly coming from 1-5 "power"-users.

And people want it to stay that way.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

What does getting bigger actually accomplish? I've been through enough Eternal Summers to know it sucks to lose a place you like to the swarm of terminally online bootlickers who infest every place that actually has people they can rule over. I'm good

[–] [email protected] 5 points 13 hours ago

I thought it was for shell script aficionados.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 22 hours ago (5 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

"diaper baby" is my favorite, you can borrow it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 13 hours ago

I've always been partial to "pissbaby"

[–] [email protected] 5 points 15 hours ago

Little fuckin ass bitch?

I hope I nailed it 🙏

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 17 hours ago

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

[–] [email protected] 60 points 1 day ago

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

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