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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          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!

  • 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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            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.

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            I think it’s just for comments?

            I’ve been wanting the same for posts for some time now

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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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          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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          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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      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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    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.

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      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

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

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      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

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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.

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    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.

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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.