To which of these affiliations do you have the most loyalty?

[craigsauve@mastodon.social]

@danso

[rose_alibi@post.lurk.org]

@evan none

[jszym@cosocial.ca]

@evan City, but Fedi Instance comes close second.

[rollotreadway@beige.party]

@evan
When you're a beige
You're a beige all the way
From your first "not a cult"
To your last dying day

[wendinoakland@beige.party]

@RolloTreadway @evan IYKYK

[nrmacdonald@mastodon.social]

@evan
None of the above to include professional sports side.
I have never understood such loyalties, as they reek of mindless chauvinism.

[dotyk@mastodon.social]

@evan #Family. Perfect in terms of #choice and #support.

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@evan my loyalties lie most in my political affiliation and my university

[burnoutqueen@todon.nl]

@evan I am a co founder of the local organization that I'm affiliated with, fun fact

[ajroach42@retro.social]

@evan Fedi by a wide margin, followed by city (only in as much as a city is a collection of people anchored to a place, and not with regard to the actual place or the local government), followed by university (even though I don't have one.)

I have no loyalty to any US political party, although I could conceivably find some loyalty to a syndicalist party if one had any chance of participating in US pol.

[quasit@kolektiva.social]

@evan

1. Life
2. Humanity

[philip@mastodon.mallegolhansen.com]

@evan Being in the edge case of running on an instance that I myself run for only my wife and I, it happens to be that “My fediverse instance” is synonymous with “my household”.

So that’s an easy win.

[0x00string@infosec.exchange]

@evan ive learned hard over time to never affiliate or pay loyalty to anyone or anything i cannot immediately strike with my fists upon betrayal.

[gumnos@mastodon.bsd.cafe]

@evan

A difficult choice because I hold them all extremely loosely.

Sure, I have some affinity toward my alma mater, but hardly loyalty.

Same with my city, it's a fine town, but my only loyalty is to the friends I have made here, not the city itself. Similarly with my fedi-instance, @stefano does a wonderful job making bsd.cafe a welcoming place, but it's precisely because it would be a non-issue to move to another instance that I remain comfortable here, largely because of the people. If either the tenor of the users/barista changed, there's no particular loyalty to the domain itself.

Political party is the weird one. I've never fit into the shapes of the big parties, so I chose my political party based on the least-unaligned with my values. But my loyalty is to those values, not the party itself, should they change values (glares at what I've witnessed the GOP doing…my Regan-voting ancestors wouldn't recognize the current disaster)

[stinerman@mastodon.social]

@evan university, city, instance. Political party is NULL.

[me@social.jlamothe.net]

@evan Since I self-host, loyalty to my instance would feel a little self-serving.

[bakachu@infosec.exchange]

@evan to humanity and civilisation and the general common good?

[funcrunch@me.dm]

@evan

University: Northwestern. Got a good education there, but no loyalty to them.
https://www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-news/trading-truth-transphobia-northwestern-university

Political party: None.
https://funcrunch.medium.com/my-gender-is-not-binary-and-neither-are-my-politics-e872c131f66e?sk=7b2e5f3f259405fb51f51b3c1950b39c

Fediverse instance: @medium. Concerned that they haven't been posting here,* and don't know how long this instance will last.

City: San Francisco, one of the few places in the US I feel *relatively* safe as a queer Black trans person.

* I helped manage this instance briefly as a contractor in 2025; almost no activity since then.

[grim_elsewhere@lgbtqia.space]

@evan I'm allergic to non-human loyalty. Gives me hives. And my loyalty to people is earned and conditional on them not being a dick.

[funcrunch@me.dm]

@evan

To clarify, I voted for city. Though I have no particular loyalty to the US, San Francisco has been my home for 23 years.