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:
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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/
Lemmy is just Reddit trying not to be Reddit
Well yea, that's kinda the point, but at least the bullshit is less corporate, idk.
Lemmy is just simply a spinoff of Reddit, just a place where the rejects go to, to shit up on everyone at any given time.
Almost ironic, seeing as this post is kinda shitting on everyone here.
Upvotes for being an opinion I guess.
Unpopular opinion vs stupid opinion is always a rough call on upvotes
Are you talking about the thread where you said people should “harass marketers”? And got reported for describing how you’d kill the person you were arguing with?
https://lemmy.world/modlog?userId=18555908
It’s like you’re trying to prove Lemmy is like Reddit by being as unhinged as some people on Reddit.
Redditors have a special kind of behavior that is distinctive from any average asshole you find on the internet.
I agree with this. You're acting very much like a special Reddit asshole. We can tell you're a reject.
Okay Spez..
/s
Unpopular and wrong. So, upvote?
Not sure about the trying not to be reddit. This place is at least as much of an echo chamber as reddit. It has petty power tripping mods and adds defederation drama as well.
The worst. The absolute worst part. Is so many people will come to massive conclusions with little to no experience. Like if they only spent a day on something and thought they understood it.
Well I liked reddit overall. My main annoyances with it were the prevalence of power tripping mods/admins and the removal of third party apps (and too many ads otherwise). Lemmy at least gives options and accountability when it comes to the former and fully resolves the latter. You still have meta drama and at times annoying community members but overall I view it as an improved alternative.
Lemmy is just simply a spinoff of Reddit, just a place where the rejects go to, to shit up on everyone at any given time.
This doesn't seem like a fair judgement. I know some people got banned on reddit but for the most part Lemmy's users are here because they prefer to be here. It's not like there's a high bar to pass to be a redditor. I left from the API apocalypse, as did many others. The bad apples are the most memorable but I've found the vast majority of people here to be assets to the community. Also, when making broad judgements about the user base you should remember that you're here too.
I didn't look through the other thread so I won't comment on it too much. But I don't think it's fair to complain about other people looking through an example you introduced to see how it supports your argument. And if you did say you wanted to kill someone there then that would be fair game to bring up as a significant ommission from your summary of the "otherwise civil discussion".
take my freaking updoot stranger
Lemmy is truth social but for left wing extremism instead of right wing. Here everybody is trans and talks killing Nazis while over there everybody is Christian nationalist taking about killing Mexicans. And in the middle its bots all the way down. And us somewhat left softies just land here with time.
Oh here we go with this bullshit again.
Just admit that you're offended that you don't have as much of a right-wing circlejerk to go to, when you totally could. I mean, X is the biggest one of them all with Truth Social right behind it.
That's what I register for anyone who complains about "DIS PLATFORM IS TOO LEFTIST!" and cry me a river.
Do you know how much dumbshit right-wing shit we've had to tolerate before more alternatives sprouted up? You're not a victim.
