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.
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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.
You’ll miss out on the Beehaw community
Beehaw seems completetly dead to me, there's only ever a handful of comments on posts.
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If you consider lemmy.ml and hexbear.net "most extreme" then sure.
Considering their main export is genocide and dictatorship apologia, I do
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,
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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,
I've never had a problem, always enjoyed my time interacting there 🤷
Same.
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
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I have seen that lemmy.world apparently has a very poor reputation among other instances.
It's the largest by far, with five times the monthly active population of #2. One of the main things people want out of federated systems is decentralization, and having one huge dominant server goes against that goal.
I should note .world wasn't the biggest when I signed up. I picked it because mastodon.world was a known quantity, which led me to believe the same team would run a stable server.
Basically none. Both are mainstream instances, not practicing any extreme moderation policy.
You might have confused lemmy.world with lemmy.ml which does have some communities with bad reputation.
I have accounts on both. Sh.itjust.works has a piracy community that .world blocks and is still federated with Hexbear for some reason. .world has old.lemmy.world if you liked the old reddit UI.
Otherwise, not that different.
Lemmy.dbzer0.com has the best piracy community :D
Damn. I was considering making a sjw account to see if the better performance claims are true but hexbear is a dealbreaker. Never going back to that crazy cult site. I know I could block it but they'd still see my posts and comments.
Also note that "blocking" it doesn't actually "block" much of anything at all - it stops you from seeing the communities located on that instance, but the users will still appear in posts all across the Fediverse, sending their harassing messages to you, pinging your Notifications every time they reply to you, downvoting your own comments, etc. The instance block function is horribly misnamed.
If you want to avoid this kind of thing, I second that recommendation to try Lemmy.cafe - it is the only Lemmy instance that defederates from the Big 3: hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and Lemmy.ml. The latter one is like 1000x easier to deal with than hexbear, yet still nearly all of the most batshit insane comments I've received on Lemmy after defederating from the other two have come from it - and for similar reasons that they get used to how things work inside their echo chamber, and then behave the same way when they venture outside of it - so I consider having defederated from it too worthwhile overall. Although you will miss out on some content such as !Firefox@lemmy.ml that way.
You just wanted a pepsi! And they wouldn't give it to you!
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shit has the same or better level of infrastructure for a smaller user base
To those who promotes lemmy.cafe as a solution,
No shame that the instance doesnt block far rights and pedo instances ?
Start considerate your self at a moment,
Not every leftists are for imperialisms.. True leftists are humanists, and want the right for people to get autodetermination,
At a moment, stop being ridiculous,