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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[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 19 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

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.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 9 points 21 hours ago (3 children)

some instances pre-subscribe to new servers/communities across the verse using bots to 'pre-load' the /all/new for new users to be able to see locally to subscribe to

https://moist.catsweat.com/all/newest

[–] Kichae@lemmy.ca 8 points 21 hours ago (2 children)

They still need to know about the servers, though. There's no centralized index of servers. If you set up a lemmy-based website today, and you do nothing to make contact with the rest of the network, the network's not going to find out about you.

There's no home to phone to.

There's no canonical whole that we all have access to.

[–] originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 21 hours ago

thats kind of on the admins though.

definitely a pitfall for users joining a shitty instance

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