Does the instance a user is on (visible after their username) affect how they are perceived, either positively or negatively, by you or others?
Does the instance a user is on (visible after their username) affect how they are perceived, either positively or negatively, by you or others?
Somewhat. If a .ml user says something kinda sus you’ll get “of course this tankie shit is from an .ml user,” and the .ml users (and other tankies) hate .world and sjw for being “liberal nazis.” .ml also has many non-tankie users as an ostensibly “general” instance, so it really depends, you kinda have to sus em out, but the admins and mods will ban you for talking bad about the russian and chinese governments and openly simp for stalin, so the sane users there often get banned or avoid upsetting the
FSBadmins.Hexbear and .grad users are almost universally annoying shitheads you want to avoid, they center their identities around being insufferable so it’s funny they don’t like when you say it, but it’s true. Cue DVs from angry .ml and hexbear users, grad can’t see me though since we’re defederated, but they’ll get me with their .ml alts lmao.
Db0 are mostly pirates and anarchists, they vary more but mostly cool. .ee seems cool, and then there’s the germans and the Uks and stuff. Basically everyone but .ml, hex, grad, .world, and sjw just “are.”
OH but beehaw is overly cautious about niceties, and blahaj will defend drag (the person), not that there’s anything wrong with that, it’s just the way they do business. Ok I think that about covers it.