Comment on Am I getting this right? The vibe of different lemmy instances
NulAndVoid@lemmy.world 2 days agoYeah my main is actually on sopuli. I mentioned regional instances that seem fine to me tbh but I feel like being in them immediately makes some people act weirdly hostile - which makes me think that ok, maybe there’s some drama I’m not aware of (followed by feeling very old and tired).
Jayjader@jlai.lu 2 days ago
The only drama I’m aware of (beyond the small spat with hexbear I mentioned) is how feddit.org’s admins were extra cautious regarding discourse on Israel/Palestine in the wake of October 7th. Given the the servers are physically located in Germany (and as such apparently the admins can go to jail over their content) it was disappointing but understandable to me, and pissed off a lot of the more audibly anti-genocide and anti-imperialism users.
I think, sadly, this kind of tribalism is part of the growing pains for federated online communities, especially the more “Western” ones. Instances behave like villages or city-states towards each other, while in physical space we’ve all grown up and been socialized inside (comparatively) huge nation-states.
NulAndVoid@lemmy.world 2 days ago
The irony.