I feel like I’ve formed some sort of faithfulness towards dbzer0 and have a bias towards subs and users of my instance. Anybody else in the same boat?

  • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.caEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I just have biases against other servers. For example, .world users tend to act a lot like redditors which I dislike.

    .ml users are more likely to tell me about the glories of communism than any other discussion. Yeah I get it, the ml stands for Marxist-Leninist, great job guys.

    .dbzer0 folks are more likely to profess the greatness of FOSS solutions and discuss Linux distros, but I’d rather have that conversation over and over again because it’s usually pleasant and I learn something new every time.

  • Celediel@slrpnk.netEnglish
    13·
    1 year ago

    Considering slrpnk.net is very niche, and catering to those with a certain mindset, I absolutely do feel some camaraderie with fellow instance-members.

    • smoothbrain coldtakes@lemmy.caEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      Outside of my instance I think slrpnk is one of the coolest. I like all of the efficiency being discussed for being more in tune with the planet and the environment rather than being at odds with it. I get tired of hearing “fuck cars” though. I like 15 minute cities as much as the next guy but I already live in suburban sprawl and it’s not going to go away, so please don’t tell me that my enjoyable automobile is evil.

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.oneEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Its nice seeing other people from your instance active on here too, a bit like seeing someone unexpected in public.

    I don’t think it would be the same kind of feeling if you’re registered on lemmy.ml or lemmy.world though, those instances make up a lot of the userbase and seeing those users is not that rare

  • TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I don’t know if it’s loyalty but I get all happy when I see a comment or post by someone on my instance on a community outside my instance.

  • Drusas@kbin.social
    3·
    1 year ago

    kbin.social user here and, yeah, a little bit.

    Partly because ernest is great and working so hard on making improvements, partly because everyone is so supportive of him. It’s just a friendly instance, mostly. I also moderate the politics magazine (community), so that’s a bit of a factor.

  • Zak8022@artemis.camp
    2·
    1 year ago

    Yea, a little bit. It’s different on the kbin side since there aren’t many instances for now. But the instance I’m on is primarily target towards Artemis app users, so we all have that in common.

    On Mastodon, yes definitely. I’m on a gaming focused instance and everyone has been awesome.

  • ram@bookwormstory.socialEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    I feel some kinship with my instance just because it’s a niche fandom-based instance, but I wouldn’t hesitate to jump away should there be reason to. In the last few months I jumped from .ml to .ca when redditors started coming here, then from .ca to here a couple weeks ago.

    If I moved, it’d have to be to another small, niche interest instance like this. I have an account over on retrolemmy.com for a couple of the communities I made, so maybe I’d set up shop there, depending on what their apparent federation/defederation stances were.