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

[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.

[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.