I’ve slowly become familiar with lemmy and learned the things like blahajj is an ally of trans but hides downvotes and kbin shows how you vote to others etcetc. i don’t even know what hexbear is but hear it’s ideologically wonky.

Lots of Lemmy instances basically have some decent aspects, but then something about them is a total dealbreaker.

I’ve started looking at moderation histories when coming across content removed by moderators and am now able to distinguish instances where ideologies not aligned with their admins get censored. I first noticed it when checking why certain posts were removed on Lemmy.ml and had to research lemmy.ml to understand they purposely are a socialist communist niche community so they basically remove content they don’t want. I had a run in with a drama on Lemmy.world and curiously checked their mod log to realize that they actually quite often remove comments that don’t match their ideology (along with finding controversial historical actions of .world).

So after all this getting to know instances involved in lemmy, you know which one has no weird dealbreaker attributes that I know of? I just realized tonight which one it is…

sh.itjust.works

So cheers everyone.

Admins and Mods here you are doing great. Community, you are doing great too. grats on being the best instance

  • @[email protected]
    26•3 months ago

    I chose it for the clever URL not knowing much when I first came to lemmy. Happy circumstance that it ended up being a solid choice. :)

    Cheers to the mods and admins for making this a great place.

    • @[email protected]
      4•3 months ago

      Love it too, but I don’t understand why they didn’t go with shit.just.works, unless of course just.works was already taken (wouldn’t be surprised). Or maybe it’s actually supposed to be “sh, it just works”?

      • @[email protected]
        4•3 months ago

        I think it does have several ways of being read, deliberately so. I saw someone explaining it as some kind of programmer in-joke as well.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•3 months ago

          Maybe. Sh is an unpopular uncommonly used shell, though many scripts are made sh compatible for wide compatibility

              • @[email protected]
                1•3 months ago

                Oh. Thank you, I just thought the sh was the file extension used for bash, did not realize it was the precursor.

                • @[email protected]English
                  2•3 months ago

                  Linux uses “magic numbers” to determine file types, extensions are just for people who like them and MS Windows

                  For shell scripts the magic number is ‘#!’ and is always followed by the path to the shell that interprets the script type (eg the first line might be ‘#!/bin/bash’)

                  • @[email protected]
                    1•3 months ago

                    I partially knew that; file names and extensions being cosmetic. I appreciate the deeper explanation on that and why bash scripts start with #!/bin/bash. I knew it was necessary but not exactly why.

      • @[email protected]
        2•3 months ago

        I might be misremembering but I think I read somewhere that they already had the itjust.works domain.

      • Captain AggravatedEnglish
        11•3 months ago

        It is my understanding of history that The_Dude had the domain itjust.works, and when choosing a subdomain for the Lemmy instance, some absolute genius suggested “sh”.