brbpostingFeedback about our name: someone's concerns on sharing
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.
Normie filter, based in Canada, less tankies, fun name. I mean those are strong selling points.
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I’ll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
InEnduringGrowStrongI 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 to said post.
FrostyTrichsAmazingly few users seem to realize this can be done.
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.
Boost offers both pretty readily.
Blaze (he/him)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.
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.
OtterI think it’s just for comments?
I’ve been wanting the same for posts for some time now
SudomeapizzaDitto, i thought i was going nuts, but yeah its only for comments, not for sharing a post
Thunder has it for posts and comments.
It works for posts on the default UI
Thunder:
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 AggravatedI 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.”
It’s very inviting! Unless you want to say anything bad about anybody for any reason.
Can’t imagine that’ll come up.
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.
lol I hadn’t seen the acronymized instance name. was the fact that it’s sjw intentional?
KlaymoreI was there all those years ago…
The owner had the domain itjust.works, and was in some large thread asking what subdomain they should use, and some genius said “sh”.
beautiful instance lore
all those years ago
Is it that many? I thought the server was younger than 2…
Yeah it was a little over a year ago lol
Yeah I recall the thread. There were quite a few suggestions none of which I can remember now. Sh was just so good.
Glad I revisited this thread and caught this. Thank you!
We’re all someone’s SJW.
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
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.
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.
Jumutachose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
Same here. If people don’t like it, fuckem 🤷♂️. I’ll find it all the funnier because of it.
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.
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
imaqtpie100% agree, well said
HanrahanWe’re not the Borg?
The name says it all!
actionjboneSame, came here to say this.
🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆Shit just works 🤷🏻♂️
TropicalDingdongYou don’t owe anything to anyones prudishness.
Literally joined because of the name
spankinspinachFirmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb
Sentient LoomThat’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.
verity_kindleFor heroin! It binds together all life.
Why would we have opioid receptors if we weren’t Made to opiate?!
What’s the point of VIP if no one’s there to see you being a PI?
“sh! it just works!”
Shhhh… It just. works.
I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.
If people can’t handle the word shit, they probably shouldn’t be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
Harumph of agreement!
The commenter themselves used big f potty word 😱
Must have goody two-shoes friends
You got it lol
Was just about to link you to this post!
I removed the link back after someone 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.
“oh no, swear words! can’t share this now!”
this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!
Does he know that
x.com is literally one of the biggest website on the Internet?
FreshLightHmm, I like it here.
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.
I wouldn’t share a reddit link in that scenario either, but it’s a decent point.
DyskolosJeez. 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.
When you grow up you’ll realize that sometimes you need to consider the attitudes and feelings of others rather than just “fuck 'em”.