I have seen many comments saying that lemmy.world sucks, and sh.itjust.works is good. I have seen that lemmy.world apparently has a very poor reputation among other instances. Why? After a quick look, sh.itjust.works doesn’t look much different to me. Can anyone explain?

Edit: many good replies. the conclusion I’m drawing is that for my purposes it doesn’t really matter. I appreciate everyone who responded

  • Sundial@lemm.eeEnglish
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    1 month ago

    .world is the instance where most new users default to so and it has the highest user base and that includes a lot of trolls or just bad faith actors. Also, a lot of .world is based from reddit users who left and they brought that kind of mindset along. Some people don’t like that either.

    • Zarxrax@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      1 month ago

      What does it matter which users are on which server, since we all get the same content anyways, aside from defederation?

      • Kichae@lemmy.caEnglish
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        1 month ago

        we all get the same content anyways, aside from defederation?

        We don’t, though. We get whatever content people on our chosen instance have subscribed to. Even without blanket server bans, there are Lemmy-based websites that your host has never heard of, hosting content you do not have access to. Someone from your server has to introduce those sites, and subscribe to the communities on those sites, for your server to have their content.

        The fediverse is subscription based. Shit doesn’t get sent around unless it’s specifically asked for.

      • [R3D4CT3D]@midwest.socialEnglish
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        1 month ago

        it really doesn’t. those that make it about server handles are the reason movements fail, like get over yourself, ppl! hexbear came @ me pretty hard for my instance. fuck em.