Is my opinion that this Community doesn’t get more posts even though it has plenty of comments griping and complaining because, ironically, you are punished for posting unpopular opinions.
Defeating the whole purpose of the community. Now it’s one thing if people were just griping in the comments, that’s all fair. People can disagree all they want, just like the person can post the unpopular opinion. But I see a lot of the times that opinions that are truly unpopular are actually deleted, censored, or the account is banned. Not because they are a troll, or bigot but because they said something UNPOPULAR.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but words can never hurt me. I think this era of internet generation has forgotten this phrase. Now let’s talk about the irony.
A bigot by definition is one who is strongly partial to one’s own group, religion, race, or politics, and is intolerant of those who differ. When someone is censored for having an unpopular opinion by those in the comments who keep begging mod to delete them or whatever methodology is used to get rid of that unpopular opinion’s post, they are, ironically, the bigots.
For they are so intolerant of an opinion that differs from theirs they attempt to remove it from reality. 💅🏻
Part of the problem is just the way Lemmy serves content. If you’re browsing All, it’s not always immediately obvious what community a post belongs to, so someone is just scrolling along and sees a post title like “The protests in the USA are useless” or “Rich people aren’t the reason for your suffering”, and reacts negatively to it without considering the context it was posted in.