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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    • Marafon@sh.itjust.works
      463·
      22 days ago

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

      • Alteon@lemmy.world
        52·
        21 days ago

        Yeah, but at the end of the day we either want Lemmy to grow, or we don’t. And if we make it difficult or awkward for people to use Lemmy, then we’re shooting ourselves in the foot if our goal is to grow Lemmy’s user base.

        • Jumuta@sh.itjust.works
          3·
          20 days ago

          this is just my opinion but taking away personality to appeal to a wider audience is one of the worst things modern megacorps do, the strength of the fediverse is the power it gives to individuals and communities over corporations with money, and so personality is one of the things the fediverse needs to maintain to succeed

  • jwiggler@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1034·
    22 days ago

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

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
          4·
          21 days ago

          Was just about to link you to this post!

          In my post, I removed the link to the original thread after someone in this comment section forgot to attack the idea instead of the person. Tsk tsk, chilling effects when we do that!

          RE: chilling: It’s hard to find an idea expressed yet which is not shared by others. Attack the person, and the opinion stays, but in the future it may be hidden from view. And that’s just not better for anyone.

          Thanks for sparking a big discussion!

  • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
    81·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • WolfLink@sh.itjust.works
      254·
      22 days ago

      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@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        14·
        22 days ago

        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.”

        • mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
          7·
          22 days ago

          It’s very inviting! Unless you want to say anything bad about anybody for any reason.

          Can’t imagine that’ll come up.

        • cokeslutgarbage@lemmy.world
          6·
          21 days ago

          I may be remembering it wrong, but I think world was one of the few accepting people without a referral during the reddit migration. That’s why I use .world. I also don’t really understand federation besides it means I can see other instances, but I only barely know what that means. There were a lot of “what is the fediverse” posts when I first joined, and they were helpful, but maybe too simplified?

          I also remember thinking .world and .ml were the defaults when I started.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      4·
      21 days ago

      This comment would be more relevant a year down the line if perspectives shifted and users begged for sanitization, but:

      Is it technically challenging or financially costly or otherwise problematic to mirror content to another subdomain, or domain mask or something? I thought of this after seeing oldsh.itjust.works:

      
try.itjust.works

leg.itjust.works

share.itjust.works

subm.itjust.works

      (2 & 4 don’t work as well as the current split word)

      No reply requested unless it seems like it would be fun/interesting to type one

      • InEnduringGrowStrong@sh.itjust.works@sh.itjust.works
        4·
        21 days ago

        I’m not an expert on the specific of this, but changing the domain for the UI (as in oldsh.itjust.works) seems a lot easier than changing the domain for the backend, which includes federation with all other instances.
        I don’t know of any way to change the federated stuff without breaking pretty much everything and starting over.
        Maybe there is and I just don’t know about it, or maybe there could be an easier way at some point.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    54·
    22 days ago

    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.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      1·
      21 days ago

      Usually I’ll be sharing either screenshots or just straight ripping the meme to send directly. But I also don’t generally communicate with work colleagues outside of work

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
      22·
      22 days ago

      Jeez. It’s just a link to just a site. What is the problem with that url? If it’s share-worthy, just share. If people don’t click it because of “bUt iTs nOt a .CoM!” screw them, bad luck for them. People need to study and pay a lot to be allowed to drive a car, but any technically challenged dildo can use the interwebz without the slightest clue about anything, and is also allowed to voice an opinion about it.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          31·
          21 days ago

          Doesn’t change my point. Even worse. How could anyone be hurt in their feelz by that harmless word? If that already hurts them, this world will be no fun place for them to exist

          • JackbyDev@programming.devEnglish
            3·
            21 days ago

            Uhh… My friend. They said it was a work chat. Regardless of your opinion if swearing I think you should understand that work places are generally more conservative with regards to swear words.

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
              11·
              21 days ago

              I dunno where you work, but that’s a place i would not want to work if i had to work at all. Jeez, i would leave such a place in an instant…

      • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        65·
        22 days ago

        When you grow up you’ll realize that sometimes you need to consider the attitudes and feelings of others rather than just “fuck 'em”.

        • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
          62·
          21 days ago

          If someone’s feelings are hurt by a silly url, it’s me that should grow up? We’re not talking about trigger-urls like r*pe-is-fun.org or similar.

          I have not met a single person since the beginning of the internet that would have his/her feelz hurt by sh.itjust.works.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            21 days ago

            If someone’s feelings are hurt by a silly url, it’s me that should grow up?

            Yes. It’s you who should realize that other people’s perspectives, thoughts, opinions, etc. matter. It’s something one typically learns as they grow into adulthood.

            • aquafunkalisticbootywhap@lemmy.sdf.org
              41·
              21 days ago

              sometimes their opinions are stupid. it’s a word. peoplr use it to mean “stuff” - if youre gonna omgwtfbbq over vulgarity in this world, in this time, just go clutch your pearls somewhere else and leave the world for those of us who worry about crap worth worrying about

              no, really. next youre gonna tell me my tattoos need to be covered at work, too! die off, old generation- nobody cares about that shit anymore. have an opinion worth a damn? ok! but i dont have time for gaspers and groaners worrying about thr most inane fucking nonsense

              the world is fucking burning but, sure watch your language because peoples feels

              dnehsyhxdkowdngmgkg

              • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
                3·
                21 days ago

                Hey, I’m “old generation” and i don’t care. We’re not all facebook-loving whatsappers. It’s people who don’t know what real problems are that care about some silly words noone else cares about.

                • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
                  4·
                  21 days ago

                  I’m 50 and don’t understand. I voluntarily work with abused people. They got real problems, they don’t care about trivialities in life like sh.itjust.works. If you reach 40 you’ll maybe understand. Or maybe it’s no matter of age but wisdom or horizon.

            • Dyskolos@lemmy.zipEnglish
              2·
              21 days ago

              I’m probably older than your daddy, but… People’s thoughts etc do matter. Sure. Never said they don’t. And if someone is truly hurt by reading the word “shit”, i can only really hope for them that they’ll never run into real problems in this world.

        • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
          13·
          21 days ago

          “when you grow up” is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.

          I got tired of half-assing being someone else. Frankly I’m too busy to bother.

          • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            31·
            21 days ago

            “when you grow up” is what people say when their skin starts to grow over the mask they wear.

            #7thgradedeep

            • CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works
              11·
              21 days ago

              You need clearer language? Only immature people worry about being “grown up”, well-adjusted people just get on with it.

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
      8·
      21 days ago

      While I agree less common domains are usually red flags, I love that the Fediverse has largely embraced them due to the hobbiest nature of the Fediverse. We need more acceptable TLDs because there’s only so many .com .net and .org domains to go around

  • burghler@sh.itjust.works
    436·
    22 days ago

    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

    • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
      14·
      22 days ago

      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 believe that the most socially acceptable way would be (and remember that it’s an example, and not directed at you):

      “fuck you, and your lil bitch ass attitude. You don’t know your father because he never even liked you, your mother blows strangers for bags of gummy bears and validation, and your ears look weird”

  • IncongruousMonkey@aussie.zone
    393·
    22 days 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.

  • PhilipTheBucket@ponder.catEnglish
    376·
    22 days 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.

  • BigDanishGuy@sh.itjust.works
    31·
    22 days ago

    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.