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?
So this has been fixed. itjust.works should redirect properly to sh.itjust.works now
R.I.P.
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!
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?
That makes sense. I have a defunct personal business domain that I’ve been thinking of repurposing for an instance.
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.
honestly the name is hallucinated enough to be true
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… ?
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!
An instance is born
