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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I think some people are too quick to judge a whole instance based on a few interactions.
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.
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.
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”
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
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.
They just hate we’re right all the time.
literally I just chose this instance because I like the seal, I hate tribalism I just wanted a cute seal 😭😭
Same, brother.
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.
yes, it’s basic tribalism
I want to be discriminated against from my own merits and not whatever instance I chose. I was originally posting out of Mastodon anyways.
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
What
Yes. They literally make memes about instances they despise and how they won’t take anyone from those instances seriously.
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)
Preface to say I don’t necessarily hold these views, just my observation:
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.ml is considered “tankie”
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Blahaj.zone is shitposty and pretty solidly trans-friendly/oriented
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.world is “neutral,” and I think federated with most instances (I joined this one bc I was brand new here and it seemed beginner friendly, but I lean further left so ¯\(ツ)/¯ may instance hop in the future)
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Lemm.ee runs similar to .world but maybe slightly more right leaning
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Sh.it.justworks is predominantly techie
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Sopuli.xyz seems primarily meme-centric
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Feddit.org seems neutral-ish and more EU based, beyond that don’t know much
I’m sure there’s others I’m missing/stereotypes I’m wildly wrong about or not yet informed but that’s what I’ve gleaned so far.
Where did you get the impression that Lemm.ee is (more) right-leaning?
Lemm.ee does not really have a leaning (in the fediverse).Lemm.ee has awesome uptime, hands of moderation, up to date Lemmy, and doesn’t defedarate (we live in the glorious age of Lemmy 19 and not in the dark ages anymore; the user can block stuff).
.world is “neutral,” and I think federated with most instances
Nah, .world is the right wing instance, and also pretty defed happy
People who think .ml is tankie aren’t federated with Lemmygrad or Hexbear
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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.
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.
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.
