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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It depends on the server. But the nice thing is, you can pack up, walk away and move to another instance.
You are not tied to your first choice. And that is better than reddit. Go where you want to be.
That kind of mobility has limitations - I've personally gotten a supposed mainline instance rugpulled with no upfront way of knowing - tons of blocklist (because, y'know) and what few communities seemed worth following, all down the drain.
Federation is supposed to solve that problem but just doesn't: it works inconsistently and with a bunch of arbitrary politicking involved: why's this instance block that one, why doesn't everyone block you-know-which-ones, etc. The idea of a "community" being instance level means that malicious instances have a lot of room to fuck around and make things awkward and unpleasant, as we've seen. It also makes discoverability and searchability doodoo.
Like, it's technically true, it's just not as practical and rose colored as it seems when people want federation to be a general cure-all for Reddit shittiness, instead of the one overhyped random implementation detail it actually is in all this.
Most instances don't block other instances of note though. The biggest decision you'll have to make here realistically is "Do I want to access hexbear and/or lemmygrad" and that's it.
And Dbzer0 in their current block of feddit.org.
It doesn't depend on your server. since lemmy is federated, you're gonna see the same content and people no matter what server you're on (subject to maybe defederation and things like that). There's still a general Lemmy "community" that spans across every instance.
Not if you browse local, that's your server only, right?
Local is just communities from your server. You'll see comments and posts from other servers, just not communities from other servers
Yup. People are people, and the worst of them seem to be very loud about being awful. Any community is going to feel more toxic as it grows, but federation (theoretically) lets you keep your community as small as you like.