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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False.
We're here because we wanted to be part of Reddit, but for one reason or another found it not feasible.
For my part (and I'm guessing many others, given the surge of new accounts around the same time) I had no desire to leave Reddit, until the API nonsense. So I was looking for something similar to or better than Reddit.
Not different. In fact specifically not different in most ways.
Certainly not "worse than".
That's not a fixed interest. There's nothing keeping most users here beyond a lack of options. I'm not interested in "building a space". The space is here it's just filled with recycled content from Reddit, narrow minded political extremism, and even worse of a hive mind than Reddit.
Your optimistic pep talk is all well and good but it's also somewhat naive and unlikely as well. You're asking a lot from people to show up to a shitty situation and just deal with it until hopefully, maybe, possibly at some future time it'll get better...and after being here many months, I've seen no change for the better and in fact I think it's gotten worse.
Sounds good to me.
I'm pretty much there already, which is pretty sad considering I came here fully intending on Lemmy replacing Reddit for me completely, only to find next to zero content I'm interested in, no or dead communities for my interests, and awful comments when, out of other options, I turned to simply browsing defaults to at least read something.
I'm not fully there yet, but I'm about 90% of the way to accepting that Lemmy is a failed experiment, undone at least in part by the shitty community. To doing exactly what you suggest and leaving this place to the tankies and other toxic people...and of course the fatally optimistic folks desperately insisting it'll be great...someday.