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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Lemmy is young. There is a lot to be desired about it but I generally like to avoid negative words when it comes to open source because open source is a net positive for the computing world. Given time, Lemmy will get better. The Lemmy devs are doing this work uncompensated and gratis. They're passionate about principles of open software, freedom of speech and expression, and a generally anti-corporate world view. I can and do get behind this and can thus put up with imperfections in an implementation. What I don't understand is actually why people will tolerate bugs in a software that they've paid for. To use an analogy, I wouldn't tolerate my car just randomly stalling. I would be knocking down the doors of the manufacturer yet we shrug our shoulders at the utter rubbish that corporations like Adobe and Microsoft churn out all of the time.