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?

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏English
    6•2 years 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

  • @ProtonBadger@lemmy.caEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    I never look at the local feed, only my subscribed. But what you subscribe is very human, we tend to gravitate towards a tribe.

  • @insomniac@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I guess to some extent. I have a bunch of accounts across instances and sh.itjust.works is the only one that didn’t have excessive down time or other problems when I first came over so I kept using this account. I haven’t touched the other ones in a while.

    So I definitely appreciate them living up to their name. I wouldn’t leave without a good reason. But if it started being down all the time I would probably leave. I guess that’s pretty soft loyalty.

    • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      Yup, loyalty out of laziness is the best kind of loyalty. It’s why I’ve been on the same Linux distro for several years, it hasn’t pissed me off enough to switch, and my last one did.

  • @captainlezbian@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Sorta? In that my instance generally handles defederation in ways I approve of more than any other major instances. But meh otherwise. And yeah mostly I have biases against instances as was mentioned

  • smoothbrain coldtakesEnglish
    36•2 years 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.

      • smoothbrain coldtakesEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        I learn mostly about FOSS, Linux, and piracy through you guys. And I thought I was a pretty advanced pirate myself, but you guys are a whole other level at times.

    • @cujo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      … what are your biases against me? 😅

      It’s interesting to see this in open discussion, as it’s something I hadn’t realized I did, but I do.

      • smoothbrain coldtakesEnglish
        8•2 years ago

        Honestly the sh.itjust.works instance is pretty on the level. I don’t find too many antagonistic folks on the instance and the conversations tend to be pretty varied depending on the community. I’ve seen you guys mostly around video game subs.

        • @Jumuta@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          8•2 years ago

          I picked this instance because the name wasn’t too serious and at the time, it was similarly popular as .world.

          I’m really happy I chose shit because world became too popular in my opinion, and the admin here is pretty cool

          • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
            3•2 years ago

            Same. I think it was the third or fourth most popular at the time, so I figured it had a good chance of not getting overwhelmed or falling into obscurity. I switched after the Reddit API announcement, but before the change went into effect, and I’m guessing a lot of others did too.

            It still works well, so I stay. I’ll probably move to a smaller instance eventually to help spread the load, but for now, sh.itjust.works.

      • @Shiggles@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        12•2 years ago

        How many of us just picked the server because we wanted “popular, but not the most popular”? I imagine that attracts a type.

        I’d want “bullied hexbear so hard they defederated out of shame” to be our bias if we get to choose. It’s always okay to punch bully a fascist.

        • @sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          4•2 years ago

          Yup, that was me. Popular enough to stay around, not so popular it’ll get overrun by noobs coming from Reddit.

          I feel like it still kinda got overwhelmed due to some instability a month or so back, but it’s been pretty good. I might go elsewhere eventually since it’s getting pretty popular (may even make my own instance), but for now, sh.itjust.works.

    • @notenoughbutter@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      I don’t even know what ml stands for

      I just joined this instance as this was maintained by Lemmy devs(I joined before reddit’s enshitification)

  • Drusas
    4•2 years 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.

  • @TurtleTourParty@midwest.socialEnglish
    5•2 years 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.

  • ramEnglish
    2•2 years 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.

  • WugmeisterEnglish
    8•2 years ago

    Not really. I did for a while on Mastodon but then the one I picked announced it was going to shut down. So I left

  • @TexMexBazooka@lemm.eeEnglish
    1•2 years ago

    Loyalty? Not necessarily. I agree with the admin and moderation policy, so far decisions in the community have been discussed openly, and I don’t generally find most of the users obnoxious.

    That being said I’m considering spinning up my own instance.