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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?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'll just apologize in advance.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And here I am, just picking a local instance to support my fellow Canadians.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

... 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.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait, they defederated from us? I thought I was noticing less of their... uh... content around.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Indeed, citing the amount of pushback they received when performing their stated goal of radicalizing people. Shocking, really.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

This is wonderful news.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wanted an alt on iusearchlinux.fyi but the admin didn't approve my application :(

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's so arch linux user of them lmao

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

This made me laugh out loud

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah better not say anything against dbzer0

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I was shocked to see a solar punk instance. It's not smth much talked about. And yes I discovered it through Andrewism

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Well you're still a brother to me.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sh.itjust.works has the best damn users in the fediverse. We should have inter-instance contests so we could whoop you guys. Our AI art team is ranked first in the Fediverse.

Does that answer the question?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ofc your AI art is ranked top, can't do the real shit can you. Even your instance name reeks of mediocrity.

(I'm sorry i'm new to shit talk and feel rude saying that)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lol all good. It's hard for me to talk shit about dbzer0 so we can just call it a stalemate. I appreciate your loyalty to your server because I feel similarly about mine.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Hey wait have we been having a conversation in 2 different posts.

Edit: several threads apparently lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yeah, I gotta sleep though. Nice to make your acquaintance

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not really. In fact, I'm only subbed to a handful of the subs on my own instance. I do think it's run well, so I stick around and will probably throw some money at the admin once I figure out how to do so.

But I don't care if a community is based on my instance or a different one. In fact just the opposite, I want to sub to communities across lots of instances so I won't be impacted as much if one goes down.

I joined sh.itjust.works because I wanted an instance that just works, and it has delivered what it says on the tin.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

I've always been a big fan of SDF, and I like their sort of niche community.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Kind of, but just because I deployed it xP

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yes, Bc I host mine

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Obviously, it's the best™

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Blåhaj are the best. If you've got a problem with Blåhaj you've got a problem with me.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Aren't you posting this from sh.itjust.works?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thats the spirit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm about to quit mine... They are too strict

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 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.

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