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.
I just did my own instance with blackjack, hookers and crack.
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.
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 🤷
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.
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.
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.
literally I just chose this instance because I like the seal, I hate tribalism I just wanted a cute seal 😭😭
I chose it because shit never just works - and I’m a techie person.
Same, brother.
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.
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
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.
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!
Full of pirates. Yar harr and ‘fuck you I will download a car you stupid DVD preamble.’
yoho!
Mate!
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. They literally make memes about instances they despise and how they won’t take anyone from those instances seriously.
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.
.world is “neutral,” and I think federated with most instances
Nah, .world is the right wing instance, and also pretty defed happy
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).
It may be due to the “conservative” comm on the instance. I’m still learning, of course.
Both c/conservative on Lemm.ee and Lemmy.world are currently unmoderated (no community moderators).
The one community moderator on .ee got banned for some Nazi shit.
Now in both communities there is lots of love for trans people🏳️⚧️
.ml is considered ‘Tankie’?? First I’ve heard of this, and I’ve yet to see anything that would give any kind of credence to that claim. How weird…
While lemmy.ml isn’t explicitly tankie like lemmygrad.ml or hexbear.chat, the fact that it’s the instance run by the two OG Lemmy devs (who, along with most of the instance’s admins, are Marxist Leninists) means you tend to get tankie friendly moderation. Most infamously, sinophobia is cracked down on, so shitlibs can’t just go hog wild with stuff like Tinyman Square and “West Taiwan” and such.
.world considers .ml tankie and .world is not a neutral instance unless you never mention palestine. So it’s a lot like reddit.
This helps to know, thank you. Will probably migrate then as I’d like to not be associated with genocide.
genocide by which side
Lemmy.world has moderators that will remove your comments or ban you for talking about how the Democrats contribute to the genocide of Palestinians.
Remember, this is .world saying it.
OP, your answer is in this thread
As I said, I don’t personally agree with it. That’s why it’s in quotes.
No, I understand that. I was just commenting on how weird it is that some people would take that position when there’s no evidence that I can see that it’s actually true. No worries, my friend! :)
That’s the first offensive stereotype I’ve heard of .ee.
I picked it because of uptime, version parity and least amount of federation drama.
Same.
haha are you saying “maybe slightly more right leaning” is an offensive stereotype?
Neutral is the more offensive stereotype :) just means you are a conservative LARPing at being liberal.
Like goddamnit there’s no way for me to be associated with anything with the r word
People who think .ml is tankie aren’t federated with Lemmygrad or Hexbear
Other instances leaning even harder into being tankie doesn’t keep .ml from being tankie.
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Removed by mod
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…
The honest majority of users on any instance seem to get drowned by the noisiest few
Removed by mod
Lemmy platform is a commie social media, most have commie takes. The reactionaries just stand out
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
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.
Thank you : )
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.
Many Lemmy users are quick to judge users based on instances. Heck some of them are defederated.
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
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