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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Upvote for unpopular.
I like the vibe here. More users = more content, which would be nice. But more users = more assholes.
I watched cool niche subs on reddit get ruined over and over again as the reddit effect filtered assholes in and decent people out.
My feed is exclusively whatever has been posted in the past 6 hours. It's enough to keep me engaged for half an hour or so, then I go about my day. It's a pretty good sweet spot. The only thing I miss is the conversation on niche subjects, but even that allows me to return to the more old school method of finding specific sites for those niches. For example, I still keep up with what's happening in Brony circles by visiting www.fimfiction.net and www.equestriadaily.com as there is basically zero pony content on Lemmy.
I agree with the vibe, here, I'm a R-refugee as well. I am.able to receive all of the news I was getting when I was lurking over there.
I'm starting to see mastodon pick up with more local media meaning we may get more content with less users.
Maybe we start a /c/wouldbenice for these feature requests. But more users doesn't equal better