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.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Once you start to go down that rabbit hole, you'll start to see that Lemmy didn't really fix any of the problems that a lot of people had with Reddit. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone where anyone can be their own spez.
A moderator recently stepped down following what was considered unrealistic rule
That would have never happened on Reddit
I've seen that happen on Reddit in smaller subs.
Unfortunately yes the problems Reddit had are still here. I was hoping there would be clear rules about what is allowed and not and those rules were enforced fairly, and people giving a chance to argue against unfair actions. Apparently that's not the case. It's like ancient greece, if you get ostracized if you are unpopular at any moment.
And according to other posts instead of expanding the reach they're busy reducing the reach of lemmy, De federating sites and otherwise cheering on kicking people off that they disagree with politically. I think that's a mistake, because there is a lot of agreement on a lot of issues even when we disagree on other issues. And it helps to not withdraw into an echo chamber with an inaccurate View of the situation like everybody did in 2024 when Kamala Harris was anointed without contacts.
A moderator recently stepped down following what was considered unrealistic rule
That would have never happened on Reddit