I think some people are too quick to judge a whole instance based on a few interactions.

yes, it’s basic tribalism

I’m agreeing with all the people who say they don’t notice until after they’ve read a post, but I wanted to add a Yo ho! to my comment.

I want to be discriminated against from my own merits and not whatever instance I chose. I was originally posting out of Mastodon anyways.

Yeah, some people really fucking hate .ml folks, and I’ve even heard people shit talk sh.itjust.works.

Also, hexbear was a thing.

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.

Somewhat. If a .ml user says something kinda sus you’ll get “of course this tankie shit is from an .ml user,” and the .ml users (and other tankies) hate .world and sjw for being “liberal nazis.” .ml also has many non-tankie users as an ostensibly “general” instance, so it really depends, you kinda have to sus em out, but the admins and mods will ban you for talking bad about the russian and chinese governments and openly simp for stalin, so the sane users there often get banned or avoid upsetting the FSB admins.

Hexbear and .grad users are almost universally annoying shitheads you want to avoid, they center their identities around being insufferable so it’s funny they don’t like when you say it, but it’s true. Cue DVs from angry .ml and hexbear users, grad can’t see me though since we’re defederated, but they’ll get me with their .ml alts lmao.

Db0 are mostly pirates and anarchists, they vary more but mostly cool. .ee seems cool, and then there’s the germans and the Uks and stuff. Basically everyone but .ml, hex, grad, .world, and sjw just “are.”

OH but beehaw is overly cautious about niceties, and blahaj will defend drag (the person), not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just the way they do business. Ok I think that about covers it.

During kamala shill op on here, I had accounts have a melt down because I was on mbin… Not really sure why. As if being non Lemmy explained why I didn’t accept her appointment by DNC komisars

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.

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.

Yes. They literally make memes about instances they despise and how they won’t take anyone from those instances seriously.

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.

I have both left and right leaning political viewpoints, and .world people like to call me a .ml troll

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.