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

[–] mershed_perderders@sh.itjust.works 3 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 4 points 1 year ago (1 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.

[–] carrot@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago

An instance is born

[–] MentallyExhausted@reddthat.com 2 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 0 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?

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

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