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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At least you postet this in the right community.
I assume you aren’t trolling, so here is what will happen when implemented: After about two weeks you will have blocked everyone who isn’t you, your alt accounts or a bot.
“Creating an echo chamber” is said a lot when people talk about blocking, banning and defederating. Sometimes it is justified, sometimes it’s utter bullshit. What you suggest, blocking people because you don’t like how they vote, is beyond bonkers. And I say this as someone who at times can be quite trigger happy with the block feature.
PS: “Everyone but me is a moron” is the mark of the moron.
I’ve heard it phrased: “If you’re surrounded by assholes. Maybe you’re the asshole.”
Sounds like projection...
Why is this an issue for you?
It's an issue for society.
Why?
Why are you in a online community if you want to be alone?
It’s right in his manifesto. He’s being FORCED to share space with all us undesirables.
Filthy casuals
Why do you assume I want to be alone?
...because if you stop listening to other opinions you end up in a divided society that has no way of healing.
What about Lemmy instances defederating others? We not hearing from people on Twitter, Threads, Facebook, Truth Social and Gap either, and what about the block feature in itself? If what I'm asking is 'issue for society,' then are these not?
I don't think anyone is in the position to dictate what everyone's social media feeds should consist of. If someone wants to make them a perfect information bubble, devoid of different opinions, then let them. That's of no harm to me.
Nobody is saying to you that blocking shouldn't be available. They are saying to you that blocking large numbers of people to create a bubble is harmful to you and the wider community.
Hence blocking people who agree with a certain post is going too far. The action is too heavy handed for the "crime". It would be a harmful feature. It's"shooting people in the head for laughing at an edgy joke" levels of heavy handedness.
My blocklist is already over 500 users long. I don't block people for disagreeing with me. The bubble I'm building for myself is a bubble free from unreasonable assholes.
However, you didn't really answer my question. Blocking an entire instance is already a feature. That's way more 'heavy handed' than what I'm suggesting.