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

  • flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    324·
    16 hours ago

    There’s a huge difference between a tankie and a socialist:

    • Socialist supports economic policy aimed at just distribution of resources
    • Tankie supports fascist-like authoritarianism under a mask of socialism
      • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
        202·
        16 hours ago

        Uh… Yeah, it does. It literally defines the meaning and the context in which the term is used. Thats… how language works. Fundementally.

        • zante@slrpnk.netEnglish
          415·
          15 hours ago

          Goodness me, you are being difficult today.

          I think you can appreciate, that no one user’s definition - no matter how agreeable you and I might find it - speaks to everyone’s definition of the same term.

          Especially when we are talking about colloquial slur, like tankie, which isn’t in main dictionaries.

          • Warl0k3@lemmy.worldEnglish
            121·
            15 hours ago

            Sure, but it does speak to that user’s definition, which is what they were talking about. And honestly, their definition is pretty much the standard. ‘A pejorative term for supporters of authoritarian regimes, particularly communist ones’ is the definition in some form across every site I’ve turned up in the thirty seconds I spent on this. It’s what everyone else in this thread appears to be using. Seems like its pretty agreed on.