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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The internet is serious business.
Hmm, I like it here.
You don't owe anything to anyones prudishness.
Does he know that x.com is literally one of the biggest website on the Internet?
I won't go so far as to use the word "normie" like this is 4chan, but I will say: I think it's fine. I'd rather have slow growth, thanks. I'm not the arbiter of what kind of users we should attract or anything, but if they have a problem with our silly name I don't want to hang out with them.
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.
Are people actually sharing fediverse links directly? I just save the image or copy the link the post is linking to, and share that.
Yeah, why not? They obviously suck and I did have a couple of "I'm not clicking that, wtf" reactions. Only then do I save and send the image.
Yeah, why not?
So they don't need to click something to see the thing, they just get it?
Well, discord shows the thing automatically, for other communicators a single click isn't that bad. We swap links all the time.
Cross-post the thing to another instance, then share that link.
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.
Home of the sh.itjust.works instance.
