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.

Yes

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

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

Of course, if I see pronouns in their name I know I'm among friends

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

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

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?

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.

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.

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.

Yeah. It’s real good. I wish we were federated with more instances, but thats a process and will take time.

Yes, Bc I host mine

Kind of, but just because I deployed it xP

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.

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

yep, i like my fellow six sided ursines

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