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I was surprised to visit itjust.works (without the sh.) and find an IT company. How did the url sh.itjust.works come to be, amazing name and all?

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[–] kogasa@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I believe I recall reading a thread about Lemmy and someone said "I own the domain itjust.works, suggest a subdomain and I'll host an instance" and someone replied with "sh.itjust.works." Then again, I may have hallucinated this.

[–] Amiss3209@lemmynsfw.com 2 points 1 year ago

honestly the name is hallucinated enough to be true

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, well sir: that IT company owns the itjust.works TLD and apparently someone there used the same domain for the instance. Sh is just a subdomain of itjust.works.

Fine and hilarious folks at itjust.works: get a certificate for your webpage!

[–] carrot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you click on the logo for XIRGO it takes you to a site with a certificate. I think whoever owns XIRGO set up the itjust.works domain for some redirects and decided lemmy would be the best time to use the domain. @TheDude Am i right? <also can someone help me hyperlink/tag the account LOL>

That makes sense. I have a defunct personal business domain that I’ve been thinking of repurposing for an instance.

[–] mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

From this thread: https://sh.itjust.works/post/4706

There's this comment: https://sh.itjust.works/comment/30682 which seems to indicate possession of some fairly beefy hardware (supported by a business).

As for the rest... ?

[–] this@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

See https://sh.itjust.works/comment/113002 for the story of sh. Like I said in that comment, I can't prove I was the one BC I nuked my reddit account, but the tldr is I was being a smartass on reddit and they rolled with it so naturally I had to join this instance, lol.

lol that's amazing!

[–] carrot@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

An instance is born

[–] TheDude@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So this has been fixed. itjust.works should redirect properly to sh.itjust.works now