Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Let me translate
"Reddit was clearly a huge pile of ass. However, Lemmy is showing signs of the onset of a similar pattern of degradation -- most notably, trolls and shouty bad-faith argumentative users make it an unpleasant experience whenever any political topic is discussed. What proportion of them are deliberate trolls or paid shills, and what proportion actual homegrown obnoxious leftists, is unknowable and probably not super relevant. What is relevant is that the problem of creating meaningful discussion and an honest forum for good communication is by no means solved, simply because we've set up a nice network outside of the administrative control of bad-faith actors. We still have a lot of work to do to make it actually a nice place to exist."
"Also side note Lemmy has some UI and UX issues but honestly who gives a fuck, Reddit also had a miserable UI for all of its lifetime and that didn't make much of a difference, because the quality of the discussion is what makes a social network good or bad."
(Edit: Also, I upvoted this purely for that fact of stating an actually unpopular opinion)