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 (1 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 16 points 1 day ago (2 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 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

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

[–] obre@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

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

[–] TGhost@lemm.ee 1 points 1 day 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,

[–] MyOpinion@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Beehaw is not worth the effort. Their audience is way too sensitive to participate with any reasonable level of social interaction. You will live on eggshells if you wish to participate there,

[–] ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 12 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I've never had a problem, always enjoyed my time interacting there 🤷

[–] OpenStars@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Same.

[–] Fitik@fedia.io 5 points 1 day ago

Same, my posts in Beehaw technology community often get more upvotes than on lemmy.world's one and I never had any problems with it