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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It's a wrong way to view it. It doesn't have to reach 1 million active users on its own. The whole point of it being federated and using ActivityPub protocol is that it CAN be compatible with any other project that shares similar values. Lemmy is still very young and missing a lot of features, but the underlying protocol makes the data portable even if functionality is not built-in yet.
People also said Mastodon will be empty after the anger about Twitter will subside, but it managed to keep it ~1 million people after its peak of 1.8m. Fediverse should grow on its own pace and not be compared to for profit social media companies. Unlike for profit companies which need a big number of people to join for investors not to leave and keep investing to stay alive since they make 0 profit, Fediverse is self-sustaining.