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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Frame shift:
So then how would you attempt to make things better?
Lemmy isn't a monolith, you can start your own instance if you wanted to, make your own comm, even propose design changes to the codebase, if you take the time to understand how it actually currently works.
Instances can federate or defederate, you as a user can block other users or comms... you can even block mods or instance admins.
Instances themselves often have different baseline rules, entry/joining processes/requirements, different levels of discussion about what rules and policies should be.
The whole point is that the fragmentation is the strength of the system. You have more power and can more easily manage your own experience, but this requires a bit more active engagement on your part.
I'm not trying to say that you shouldn't be able to complain about problems that you see, but I am suggesting that you should then take the next step beyond that, and try to be proactive.
Be warned though: Any suggested changes are likely to be much more complex than you probably think they will be, and will likely be much more controversial than simply noticing that things could be better.