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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[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 13 points 1 day ago (8 children)

They are just two different servers. Lemmy.World is one of the really big ones. I had an account there but because of the size there were a lot of performance issues. I would recommend you join one of the smaller servers like sh.itjust.works. You have access to almost all the same information on the Fediverse.

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 14 points 1 day ago (7 children)

You'll miss out on the Beehaw community on Lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works, since Beehaw defederated from them

Lemmy.cafe is a nice general purpose instance that only defederates from the most extreme instances, while still giving access to Beehaw and all other instances. It's still small too, so it'd more effectively spread the load compared to creating an account on sh.itjust.works, which already has a pretty huge user count.

[–] mayhair@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 1 day ago (2 children)

If you consider lemmy.ml and hexbear.net "most extreme" then sure.

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 2 points 11 hours ago

An instance who is federating, with pedocriminality, far rights, etc,
Super this workaround,

Not every person on lemmy.ml is an "leftist" who wants imperialist system,

[–] obre@lemmy.world 2 points 18 hours ago

Considering their main export is genocide and dictatorship apologia, I do

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