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

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[–] Sundial@lemm.ee 29 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago) (16 children)

.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.world 11 points 22 hours ago (15 children)

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

[–] catloaf@lemm.ee 4 points 22 hours ago

Your account may be banned by the admins if they don't like you. If it's on your home instance, you lose the entire account. That's why it's important to create your account on a trustworthy instance (or host your own).

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