Does the instance a user is on (visible after their username) affect how they are perceived, either positively or negatively, by you or others?
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 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
yoho!
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!
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.
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…
I wish that’s what it was
Hey! I thought I had it this week.
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”.
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.
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 think some people are too quick to judge a whole instance based on a few interactions.
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.
yes, it’s basic tribalism
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.
I want to be discriminated against from my own merits and not whatever instance I chose. I was originally posting out of Mastodon anyways.
What
Many Lemmy users are quick to judge users based on instances. Heck some of them are defederated.
Yeah, some people really fucking hate .ml folks, and I’ve even heard people shit talk sh.itjust.works.
Also, hexbear was a thing.
Hexbear still is a thing, not sure what you’re referring to.
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
Yes, for now.
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.
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
Yea but that was always the case. I am asking why they spoke of Hexbear as though it no longer exists.
Apparently as another poster pointed out hexbear.net isn’t there, or rather it redirects to chapo.chat when I checked it just now. No idea why they’d think that means it’s dead though. I was just pointing out the defederation as a possible source of their confusion.
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.
They just hate we’re right all the time.
They hate us cuz they aint us 🤷
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.
