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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I mean you're right, but I found the same on other platforms.
I think being contrarian just feels like engagement. When you're taking a shit beating on some commenter about how bad capitalism is a quick hit.
I think the format of most social media encourages this type of simple pre-thought positions on things.
My exact thought. This isn’t a lemmy thing, it’s an internet thing.
I really don’t have much of the experience OP is talking about either, but that’s largely due to the feed I’ve curated. Either that or I’m the problem lol. But in general, I tend to have pretty good interactions for the most part, unless I’m feeling feisty and start something.
I'm on /all constantly, and I agree with you. People are fine. I don't really know where people get the idea to post these things. I think they might browse all, see a bunch of posts from /antiwork, or /fuckcars, or /aboringdystopia, or /linuxmemes, and then complain that they only see those things. It's probably confirmation bias, and if they used frontpage instead and actually followed spaces they were interested in they wouldn't have these problems.
To me, it's like complaining about sex at an orgy. The point of the platform, and reddit, and most other forms of social media, is to curate a feed that suits you. If you don't do that, it isn't the platforms fault if it then doesn't suit you.