Unpopular Opinion

7007 readers

211 users here now

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/

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

Rooki@lemmy.world

JonsJava@lemmy.world

admiralpatrick@lemmy.world

lemann@lemmy.world

ptz@dubvee.org

Worker owned and Non-Profit companies should not have a free pass to be anti-consumer. (reddthat.com)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Mee@reddthat.com to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.world

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

I hate when people pretend that a owner owned and non- profit companies can never do any wrong.

If any company did something againest consumers, they should be boycotted till they fix their behavior or correct their mistakes.

It's like, one of the things I started seeing people giving a free pass for so long is paywalls and overflowing amount of trackers for news organizations.

I have no problem with companies that might provide some weekly or even monthly articles under a paywall, but paywalling every article is anti consumer. I also have no problem with companies that have a moderate amount of trackers, but I should not trade my soul to read articles, news websites need to choose carefully what to include on their websites.

If you gonna have all the trackers in the world, then at least raise the value of your product, for news that means license them under a free license(Creative Commons,...etc) so I actually get a article in exchange for allowing the trackers in your website. Otherwise, granting me a license to only look at the text in exchange is unfair.

I don't care what is the name of the company capitalist or not, paywalled content that restrict people ability to read is evil and ads that track the size of your underwear is evil and so the companies who do so need to be boycotted to change their behavior.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] yesman@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

I think it's sad that people have adopted the identity "consumer". I will never accept that markets and cash are the same thing as political consciousness or direct action.

We know that cash shouldn't count as political agency for the rich, why do we accept that for ourselves?