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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How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.
Probably a fan if those fancy newfangled bash or fish shells.
Fish shells? I only know bash and sh…
Huh, TIL. Thanks.
I am partial to pdksh, mainly because when I read it I hear a drummer going “ba-dum-tschh” like at the end of a joke, which is how I see most of my sed invokations.
Sh, It Just Works ™️
As a shitter on the shitter I vote the name stays.
I’ll take that to Matrix and my grave. 🤣
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.
It’s stayed true!
Literally joined because of the name
It is a decent normie filter lol
They can join lemmy.world for regime sponsored front
Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb
If people can’t handle the word shit, they probably shouldn’t be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
Harumph of agreement!
That’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.
chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
The name says it all!
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.
Same, came here to say this.
Could build a reverse proxy to mask Lemmy links behind something that seems more legit
The internet is serious business.
Does he know that
x.comis literally one of the biggest website on the Internet?As someone who works with a marketing department for a living, please don’t ruin this with marketing.
“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.
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.
You could always use lemmy.org
How do we know that instance will stay afloat though? I see search engines indexing Lemmy already, but they’re all scattered with whatever instance they happened to get in touch with.
You can link from almost any other instance. This is a skill issue.
I thought it was for shell script aficionados.
