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

  • .Donuts@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1065·
    7 days 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!

    • snooggums@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34·
      7 days 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.

      • Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
        21·
        4 days ago

        I don’t know if I would agree with that assessment entirely, yes Lemmy.world has the same starting Jerk to not jerk ratio. However on Lemmy.world the amount of jerks who aren’t banned is higher than instances like blahaj.zone, dbzer0, or pawb.social. So there are more jerks on Lemmy.world, not because it attracts more jerks or has more users but also because it doesn’t ban them as often as other instances do.

        I’m using jerk kind of loosely but I’ll clarify because people will think I’m trying to say someone should be banned for a rude moment but I’m not. When I say jerk, what I really mean is alt-right troll, transphobe, sealioner, climate-denier, etc. Someone who isn’t obvious enough to be caught as a spammer would but who is still bad for the community.

          • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            2 days ago

            Unless their wife put them in chastity. Then their jerk time would be limited to when she said so…

            …did I misread the situation? Everybody’s looking at me funny.