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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  • Human Crayon
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    41 hour ago

    As someone who works with a marketing department for a living, please don’t ruin this with marketing.

  • @renrenPDX
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    21 hour ago

    Would a URL shortener work better for sharing Lemmy links/instances?

  • @[email protected]
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    93 hours ago

    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.

  • AItoothbrush
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    94 hours ago

    Isnt that the point? Dont like it, use another instance. The point of federation is that you can choose the website you use without choosing the group of people you interact with. Thats why it should be more common. I dont want to lose contact with people because they wanna use messenger or snapchat. I have to use both on a daily basis and i hate it.

    • @[email protected]
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      53 hours ago

      Yeah you can choose the instance your profile is on or where your browsing but you can’t choose what instance a post was made on. If I see a meme on lemmy and want to share it with a friend who doesn’t know about lemmy depending on how I get the link it could either be for the cached version on my instance or the “actual” link on the instance where it was posted. It seems the default behavior on the web ui for the share button is to do the cached version but depending what client you use this can be different.

      It makes adoption harder if when people actually do try to spread posts the person on the other end is afraid to click it.

  • jwiggler
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    599 hours ago

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

  • @[email protected]
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    369 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      Firmly agree. It sounds both a) fun, and b) wildly reliable. The two things I needed back when I was a Lemmy newb

    • sunzu2
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      39 hours ago

      It is a decent normie filter lol

      They can join lemmy.world for regime sponsored front

  • [email protected]
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    10 hours ago

    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.

    • @[email protected]
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      117 hours ago

      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 Aggravated
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        66 hours ago

        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.”

      • Nothing4You
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        138 hours ago

        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.

          • @[email protected]
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            77 hours ago

            The default Web UI as well, the link icon is using your instance, the fediverse icon gives the commenter/poster’s instance link

            • [email protected]
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              11 hour ago

              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.

    • @[email protected]
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      105 hours ago

      Shhhh… It just. works.

      I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.

  • ohellidk
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    159 hours ago

    “oh no, swear words! can’t share this now!”

    this sounds like a personal problem, sorry Ned Flanders!