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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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 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
100% agree, well said
The name says it all!
Same, came here to say this.
How dare they mess with Sh, It Just Works.
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.
If people can’t handle the word shit, they probably shouldn’t be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
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!
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!
Harumph of agreement!
As someone who works with a marketing department for a living, please don’t ruin this with marketing.
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
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.
For 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?
Could build a reverse proxy to mask Lemmy links behind something that seems more legit
You can link from almost any other instance. This is a skill issue.
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!
The internet is serious business.
yeah, who would ever be on such an instance
hahaI thought it was for shell script aficionados.
“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.
need an instance named titfuck.gore. no one wants to cite that as a source.
Oh there’s plenty of corpo spam accounts being made, even here.
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.
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
There are a lot of interests I have which do not have enough users in communities here to make sharing things worthwhile, personally. Why waste time sharing art or music or other original content in places where it gets little engagement?
There’s a reason the front page is primarily covered in memes, news, technology news, and politics, and that’s because those require little barrier of entry to participate in for those tech savvy enough to already be here.
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
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.
