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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Really don't understand why so many commenters here say it's just a part of the internet...
No? There was a time XMPP connected me to most my fiends, whether they had Facebook Messenger, Google, ... And these days it's all WhatsApp.
E-Mails used to be a thing. But now my bank and half the businesses refuse to communicate via email and I get 20 apps and logins to various mailboxes to spend an hour each month to fetch my bills. While my eMail inbox is all spam.
Forums and Blogs were a thing, but they're mainly displaced by Discord, and everyone writing for a more general audience is on big-tech platforms or Medium.
The internet got way more centralized. From DNS to half the (still existing) independent websites who all homed in on Cloudflare... So even the infrastructure of the internet changed. They also do less open network exchanges and traffic gets moved it to private interchanges. And the whole internet was devised to be a very diverse and kinda open network. Now 90% of it is 5 big companies.
And you pretty much can't google anything anymore. In the old days I'd just ask Google what the error message on my phone means, or if my Dell laptop can take a 32GB RAM stick (despite it not being listed in the compatibility list). And I'd regularly find good answers. Not so much as of today. I'll get 10 results written by some AI harvesting my clicks and that's it. The proper answer written by some random person on Reddit or somwhere else is gone.
It's really not just the www or social media. It's everywhere.
Yeah, even in the last decade this has steadily gotten worse. It feels like more and more things are being forcibly centralised for express purpose of making data harvesting easier - and the people doing it aren't even really trying to hide it either.