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/
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I've been running a discord 'server' for a decade and I fucking hate it. UI has shit all over the place, some are menus, some buttons, some only access able from left/right click, tons of things are buried in menus, if you want api access or 'apps' you need to use the dev site which the application does not tell you about at all, they say they will send server admins info on new features and changes but that's a fucking lie, so things that were in one location and accessibility via xyz now are nowhere to be found...
It's genuinely awful. When I think about discord, I think fondly of Xfire and Skype. Skype. Even after the MS buyout.
E: and that's ignoring the advertisements, 'quests', paywall features for p2p functionality...
I sorta question some uses of chat. Like there is real time communication and non realtime. I don't feel non realtime is really chat. A forum like this is more appropriate to non realtime. chat should be instances.