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

  • .DonutsEnglish
    49•3 hours ago

    Here’s the description by both:

    sh.itjust.works:

    A bilingual (EN/FR) general-purpose instance located in eastern Canada! Powered by 99% renewable energy! Everyone is welcome eh.

    Lemmy.World:

    A generic Lemmy server for everyone to use. (…) Lemmy.World is a general-purpose Lemmy instance of various topics, for the entire world to use

    The comments about instances being “good” or “bad” is just plain ol’ tribalism.

    Users get attacked for the instances they registered to, even if they were unaware of instance politics when they actually registered. That sucks!

    • snooggumsEnglish
      11•2 hours ago

      Lemmy world has more users and therefore more likely to have more jerks when the jerk to not jerk ratio within an instance is the same.

      There are/were a few instances where staying with their registration is worthy of assuming the worst about them.

      • @workerONEEnglish
        2•2 hours ago

        The extra jerks on Lemmy world create more content so the mean jerk time is greater

        • snooggumsEnglish
          3•2 hours ago

          If they were spread between other instances they would have the same total jerk time.