Unpopular Opinion
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- 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.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
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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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Reminds me of the old BBS and Usenet days. Pros and cons to it, like anything else. I agree that it's sustainable. Biggest issue right now is the lack of users and content in niche communities. But that problem is fixable.
If we hang in and keep talking, more folks can find us. We don't need hundreds of millions to have something worthwhile here. I read and enjoy lemmy every day.
I disagree with you respectfully.
The day the fediverse begins to gain a significant amount of users( speaking in terms of tens of millions) is the day where every pitfall of the fediverse is going to make the experience very miserable(bad reliability, bad security and terrible privacy)
The reason why the fediverse is surviving right now is that it's relatively very small (under 20 million accounts, with most users not being active at all in the fediverse) compared to the alternatives.
I get your point. More numbers brings more problems. But I think it also brings more solutions and more helpful hands, too. Growing pains, if you will.