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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I agree, they're "not that bad"
And that they aren't "that good" either.
They just tend to be low effort pandering to a limited range audience. Which is fine! Targeting an audience is part and parcel of creating anything with a goal of anyone else being interested.
It does not make a given project broadly accessible, which means that until folks here in the fediverse have easy access to filtering methods, folks are gonna complain.
I look at it like porn. I don't want to see porn on my feed, so I take steps to minimize it. I don't enjoy most pizzacake comics, so I take steps to minimize it. I have been successful with both of those. I only see porn when a new community gets created, and I only see pizzacake when I'm not using an app that has keyword filtering for posts.
Which is ideal, imo. It means fans can enjoy, and I don't have to flick my finger an extra time to get past.
What? Randombutthurt@randinstance.gripe didn't know you can just scroll past, roll your eyes, and move on with your day?