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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[–] donuts@lemmy.world 97 points 2 days ago (1 children)

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!

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 28 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] imposedsensation@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 2 days ago

Stop calling jerks jerks, you're being a jerk! /s

[–] workerONE@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The extra jerks on Lemmy world create more content so the mean jerk time is greater

[–] spankmonkey@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago

If they were spread between other instances they would have the same total jerk time.