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 really needs to have some sort of built-in mechanism for grouping cross posts like this, because it does look spammy in the feed.
The users doing the cross posting aren't doing anything differently than they'd do by posting a link to multiple subreddits. It's just that there's no sorting algorithm on Lemmy, so there's no "smart" filtering happening behind the scenes to keep it from looking as cluttered.
I do think part of the problem is that people are treating this like Reddit. A quantity versus quality, shotgun approach to populating communities. It's just uncurated noise.
True, but I feel like that's a necessary evil in order to encourage growth in the platform. There's gotta be something for people to see when they visit, otherwise they stop coming. And social platforms don't really work if people aren't being social on it.
Some may argue that this is actually a good thing and that it keeps uninterested users off the platform in the first place, but I feel like that's putting the cart before the horse, because users need a reason to be interested in the first place.
It's a little forced, to be sure, but I think that's just got to be part of our growing pains for a bit until the community at large is a bit more fleshed out and certain posting conventions are established. A lot of things are also going to be changing pretty rapidly, since Lemmy is still in pretty active development, and the rush of new users has jolted that development recently, too. So there will be new features and a new culture to adopt to eventually.