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

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        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.

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          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

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    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.

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    “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.

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      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.

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        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

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          I wouldn’t mind 100k monthly active users. Millions probably not, but a bit more activity would be nice to cover a few more niche topics

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    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.

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

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          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!

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    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

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      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”

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      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.

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    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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    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”.

  • 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.

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        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.

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      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.

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        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.”

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          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.

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

          Can’t imagine that’ll come up.

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      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.

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    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.