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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Shhhh 🤫 it just works, there’s no need for change
If people can’t handle the word shit, they probably shouldn’t be looking at shit on Lemmy. Lmao
“sh! it just works!”
Shhhh… It just. works.
I chose it as a smaller, stable instance based in Canada that had a catchy name.
chose the instance because of the name, stuck for the uptime, reliability and admins
Shit just works 🤷🏻♂️
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.
We’re not the Borg?
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
I might be too autistic to care about the prejudices other people might have about the urls
Maube but I see pedo.school (amongst others) is a blocked instance on Mastodon.
