Does the instance a user is on (visible after their username) affect how they are perceived, either positively or negatively, by you or others?
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Yeah, some people really fucking hate .ml folks, and I’ve even heard people shit talk sh.itjust.works.
Also, hexbear was a thing.
They just hate we’re right all the time.
They hate us cuz they aint us 🤷
literally I just chose this instance because I like the seal, I hate tribalism I just wanted a cute seal 😭😭
Same, brother.
I chose it because shit never just works - and I’m a techie person.
Hexbear still is a thing, not sure what you’re referring to.
They’re defederated on .world and probably some other lib instances. I moved to ml because I didn’t like the vibe on world, especially their rabid obsession with “tankies”
I left once they started curating & collating lists of known prolific tankies so that they could share them amongst each other to tag each one every time they encountered them on Lemmy.
Yea but that was always the case.
Hexbear.net doesn’t seem to be registered anymore
It redirects to chapo.chat for me but still has banners and posts that call it hexbear
They lost their domain and federation went with it for now, until they get a new domain
That will break federation
Hexbear.net doesn’t seem to exist anymore?
It redirects to chapo.chat, there are some domain shenanigans going on but the people are still there and actively posting.
That’s new, it wasn’t doing that before. That’s going to cause a failure to federate
For now. There were domain issues and that’s being worked on, chapo.chat is a workaround.
Sure but there’s no federation unless you use the original domain
Not really. Most users on most platforms are just users. I give kudos to those instances that have unique names and < 10 users. Or to sdf, those users are awesome.
Yay, my somewhat randomly chosen people.
I didn’t know that others knew about sdf
sdf users seem to pop up with lots of self made content. Which is really awesome.
Thank you : )
yay thankies :3
Meh. There are so many instances that I don’t really judge someone by what instance they’re on; I judge someone based on what they do.
Personally I don’t notice it or care at all. People get way too bogged down in stuff like that, making presumptions or ascribing views to people. I’m here for funny and interesting shit, nothing else.
To me, no. There are some who see .ml or dbzero and will act accordingly.
What is the stereotype about dbzero? Out of the loop on that.
If you dont nail it down they’ll pirate it from you 🏴☠️
Why can’t the nails be pirated?
Are you kidding? The nails are also pirates!
We’re an anarcho-syndicalist commune. We take it in turns to act as sort-of-executive officer for the week, but all the decisions of that officer have to be ratified at a special biweekly meeting by a simple majority, in the case of purely internal affairs but by a two thirds majority, in the case of more major…
Hey! I thought I had it this week.
I wish that’s what it was
Full of pirates. Yar harr and ‘fuck you I will download a car you stupid DVD preamble.’
Usually techie and anarchist-adjacent, pro-piracy as well, generally anti-Marxist but usually more focused on being anti-Capitalist.
Anti Marxist but also anti Capitalist? How does that even work?
Anarchism is a strain of anti-capitalist thinking that normally rejects some or most of Marxism, dbzer0 tends to more often fall into the category of rejecting Marxism and being hostile towards AES, from interactions I have had. I am not going to say it’s a rule, just what I encounter most frequently.
yoho!
Mate!
I think some users who use the fediverse a lot may judge on instance. I don’t really, except sometimes when I see a reactionary comment from .world and I’m like, “yeah that checks out”.
Yep. I don’t judge a comment before reading it, but there are a couple of instances where I will think “yeah, not surprised” after reading a reactionary or low-quality post.
I dont look at instance first or judge people from the instance. But if I see a super tankie take and then I see its .ml instance I am like yep figures.
I keep seeing so much stuff against .ml and I’m just like, I picked it because it was basically the only really active one when I first joined…
Lemmy platform is a commie social media, most have commie takes. The reactionaries just stand out
The honest majority of users on any instance seem to get drowned by the noisiest few
I just did my own instance with blackjack, hookers and crack.
I have both left and right leaning political viewpoints, and .world people like to call me a .ml troll
Actually makes sense, there are some takes skirting on the border here
I think some people are too quick to judge a whole instance based on a few interactions.
yes, it’s basic tribalism
I don’t actively discriminate based on a poster’s instance, but there are a half dozen or so instances where there is a very high likelihood that they lean one way or another on different topics. If a post that could be read two ways then their instance can be a pretty reliable indicator that looking at their posting history will confirm which way they lean.
In a couple of cases I just blocked the communities that are the hot button issues for that instance because other communities are worth reading and interacting with.
Instances over time coalesce into certain ideological stances, a curious aspect of federation it seems. This absolutely has an impact on interaction.
On the other hand, some have explicit ideological positions or themes (e.g. lemmygrad.ml, slrpnk.net) and others are shaped by moderation (.ml taking a hard stance against the sinophobia normal in mainatream media, .world and a few other instances/staff banning comments making light of violence e.g. luigi)
This accelerates that process, for sure! I am more talking about how long-term, users tend to form more similar views. If you join an instance and another better fits your views, users tend to jump ship.
Many Lemmy users are quick to judge users based on instances. Heck some of them are defederated.
Yes. They literally make memes about instances they despise and how they won’t take anyone from those instances seriously.
