Ah, the natural fate of unpopular opinion communities.

The Þ dude is alright and Lemmy users have an irrational hatred for slightly-special characters. I wonder how many people are using automation to downvote every comment of his that contains a Þ, it's way too consistent accross instances and communities to be entirely organic.

Pedofiles, those that think and do not act, deserve more compassion by society. They can’t help the way they feel. Acting on it is obviously extremely harmful but they can’t even talk about it, even to therapists, for fear of persecution. The current methods of suppression are harmful and akin to conversion therapy for lgbt folks. We need to allow them to have a voice and access to non harmful animated CP with all consenting adult voice actors or AI. In out current society they are akin to trans people in the 1950s

Whatever just say what you think and eat a couple downvotes every once in a while.

There's a sweet spot. Unpopular opinions that get upvoted need to be trivial enough to not make anybody uncomfortable or angry.

Something like "Toilet paper orientation doesn't matter" is far more likely to be upvoted by somebody who disagrees with it than "Everything bad that happens to your children is your fault because you knew it was a possibility and had them anyway".

Watching porn is morally problematic.

Most people aren’t paying for their porn. They’re watching stuff uploaded, for free/pirated, often without the involvement or approval of the people involved.

Porn also normalizes extreme acts - things like choking, which is more dangerous than actually whipping someone.

All energy drinks including Monster taste awful.

Tobacco use is a character flaw.

The people saying "extroverts need to shut up" are often the same ones posting "you are fine just the way you are, no matter how your brain is wired."

Not sure if this is an unpopular opinion or not but IMO the whole concept of "support the visibility of opinions you don't like" was doomed from the start because you can't force people to play along with an alternate vote meaning (and the version this is an alternate to also wasn't the intention behind the voting system, so there already was a drive to use votes as support of the idea rather than the discussion).

Also, if posts make it to all, then there will be voters who don't even realize the community wants votes to work differently, even if they care about what the community wants.

Veganism is a morally correct choice despite it not being perfect but many online vegans are insufferable

Most people here don't know shit about China

America deserves Donald Trump

How real are we getting?

As much as I understand the anti-car movement, people who ride bikes on the road instead of the adjacent bike-legal path are assholes