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/
That is not an unpopular opinion at all.
i think op may be confusing that some of us sort by all, not because is better, but because content still coming slow and/or we may want to discover new communities. i wouldn't sort youtube by all, so much stuff, i would rather focus on what i like
Maybe not a one in a million rare, but I get the feeling that most people disagree with my approach. Is it 51%, 90%, something else? Who knows.
It's been the consistent recommendation since day 1.
I'm not sure if using a website's main feature as intended really counts as an "unpopular" opinion
Every time I browse "all", I have to block a bunch of communities.
And that's a good thing! I'm blocking communities that aren't in my language or interest, but the fact that they keep appearing means interests are diverse :)
I wish the language tag was used more extensively. But I understand that most people won't bother with selecting the language of their post/comment each time.
I think the language selection should be automatically set for each post if you only have one language selected on your profile, or even an option to default to one if you have more selected.
But only if you subscribe to lots of communities. I have a couple dozen and only get a few posts per day. So I use my subscribe as home, and then switch to all. But my All is highly censored with word and community filters mostly to remove US politics.
I guess that’s key detail here. I am subscribed to lots and lots of communities, some of which are nearly dead. I want to keep an eye on several small and special communities that focus on a very narrow niche. You’ll probably never see any of those communities in the All feed.
There are only a handful of communities I subscribe to, so that I can sort by /new and never miss a post.
But the fact that they're slow enough for me to never miss a post means I can't just browse. So /all is the frontpage for browsing.
That's where I'm at.
I use Mbin, but I'm gonna go ahead and agree with you.
I don't know anyone else who uses Lemmy, but I would agree. That's the whole idea of subscribing. The local feed and all are full of stuff I don't wish to see.
you can also block the instances that you dislike, but that just takes up a whole lot of time to do.
Does it? You just click on the community, the three dots, then click block community. It takes a second or two.