showerthoughts is a better unpopularopinion than unpopularopinion (midwest.social)

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The reactions to most posts are overwhelmingly negative and critical. Ironically, posts to c/unpopularopinion tend to argue that they agree with the post, and are consequently more supportive.

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[-] sxan@midwest.social 2 points 1 month ago

I think it's more that people like to be contrarian, more so now that a lot of Reddit has moved to Lemmy. If someone says they have an unpopular opinion, crowds of people will jump to say it's not really unpopular; if someone posts a shower thought, it seems like you get a lot of responses contradicting the thought, or simply claiming it's not a shower thought. TBF, there do seem to be a significant number of posts in c/showerthoughts that aren't; like, long political posts, or whatnot.

Still, contrarian responses are becoming the norm.

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