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)
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/
depends on what instance you use and what comunitys/instances u block.
The only anoying user cluster i came about here was this iranian bot farm cluster that basically cryes "muh Zionism" at everything and everyone, but blocking the .ml instance helped a lot ignoring those
Also blocking every politics related comunity is a good step to keep your sanity
Reading comprehension seems to have dropped significantly in the last few years. Not sure if it's site specific or just the pandemic remote learning/AI essay generation joining the Internet at large...
Not just users. Mods/admins too.
Ha! I usually use Voyager, so I ignore votes. A few weeks ago I logged into lemmyworld and noticed a weird downvote pattern. A wild mod had gone into some sort of Agrajag fit and booted me from all their ghost instances, citing self-promotion. It was both confusing and hilarious!
Sure. I regularly get social media vibes as well. Everyone needs to subscribe to one of two sides. Simple truths are way better than long and nuanced texts...
We're doing better with bot activity and some Reddit-isms like commenting "This." underneath another comment. But we're not too far from the vibe on Reddit.
Not sure if roatsing people for their opinions is bad?! I mean this is the internet after all. And if you don't like backlash, don't publish your opinion on a discussion platform.
I left Reddit because of Reddit, personally. I expect better if this community, it you may be interested night.
Also, I do wonder what protections Lemmy provides against bots. How do we know the people were taking to are actually people?
I expect better if this community, it you may be interested night.
I can see the "if = of" typo, but I can't parse what the second half of this sentence is supposed to mean?
I see much more toxic behavior here than on reddit. Explicit calls for political murders, and when I criticize them (naively believing these to be open conversations about political or democratic strategies) I get banned from communities.
Neither is the "better option." I will continue using both. I'm not allergic to "toxic" behavior.
It's just people. The more of them you get in one place, the more shitheads crop up.
Well, why would it be? People are people and a lot of us came from reddit in the first place.
I have not yet seen that bad userbase.
Maybe it's about how one preceives commenting or so.
I think it's way nicer here and will never render to that of reddit or any mainstream social platforms as their existense will remain as traps for bad actors.
Of course some will find their way here but for most, it's way too complicated.
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.
I find it way nicer, personally.
I feel like you didn't actually explain what you mean, so I'm kind of guessing at what you're pointing at. But what many people object to is when they get strong replies and sometimes when they get replies that they didn't ask for. They feel attacked or they feel like the comment section is being unnecessarily aggressive or unreasonable. If that's what you're feeling, then yes, you will find it here.
And I'm not trying to minimize your feelings because they're legitimate. And also this same exact phenomenon has been happening for the last 30 years, if not longer. There are various reasons why, and those can be fun to discuss, because many people in the comments section actually have reasonable positions, but there are some trolls out there and sometimes it's hard to distinguish them.
Which should surprise absolutely nobody - the user base is redditors and... people who used to be redditors. "Used to be" for various reasons, including being too shrill, insufferable, spammy or malicious... for Reddit. Not exclusively, though, of course.
Either way, whatever annoys you about Reddit, you'll more than likely find it here. Y'know, to the degree you find anything on here between the ghost town factor and incredibly stupid architecture.