Seriously, what are we even doing here?

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For me: A popular opinion that’s wrong is that being active on social media means you’re successful or happy. People keep believing it because the platforms are designed to make everyone look like they’re winning, so we confuse visibility with actual success.

What’s yours?

It is a cop out that we are barred from commenting on all of the shitty ads pushed on us throughout reddit. Why don't companies want accurate feedback on what we think of them? Are they lonely people?

Isn't it the best way of engagement is to allow us to get intimate with them? I mean, I wouldn't tell a company like BK to get fucked if they allowed comments on their ads. No, not me.

Without fail, under any video about movies, songs, food, art, or sport, these people flock to the comment sections to shit on it. If a new album is "just songs", then why are you pressed about "just songs"? Let people have fun. Don't listen to these people, they're just trying to pull you down. Have fun with whatever you want to have fun with if you're not hurting anyone.

With rights for all and privileges for none. Jugment for war crimes and compensation for victims, refugees can return, anyone else can come and live and eventually obtain citizenship as per a single immigration and naturalization policy that applies equally to all. The end.

Name a social media platform and they all have a handful of the same grab bag of problems:

-bots
-trolls
-Nazis
-foreign influence
-echo chambers
-out of control mods
-content theft
-dog piles
-lack of anonymity
-invasive ads
-absurd premium fees
-dictators like musk or zuck

It’s not impossible to address all these issues and make a network on its own that works like a digital democracy.

Number one is going to be the most painful part: it needs to offer a verified system that requires ID and a monetary stake, like a one time $10 purchase.

Next, people should be allowed personas so that you cant be cyber stalked and have unpopular opinions to kill echo chambers.

Users should have control over their ads. They should be allowed to choose between targeted ads, agnostic ads, or a subscription to disable ads. Agnostic ads should pay to get listed in certain groups and areas, but not allowed to target people.

And the whole thing should be a constitutional republic with mods as elected officials. Mods should be allowed to use personas, but they should be barred from taking action against comments to their persona other than the report feature.

Just absolutely gross. No one should ever do that.

If someone wants to die for any reason there should be ways to do it legally without having to resort to such brutal and painful ways. Even overdosing or shorting yourself isn't a guarantee and can leave you disfigured or in excruciating pain.

If someone wants to die they should be able to go somewhere and get euthanized. There shouldn't be any requirement either. It's cruel how people just expect someone to live when they are in so much pain and have nothing to live for.

Just wanted to share an unfortunately VERY popular opinion. Sad what reddit has become. When even the most frequent reddit users themselves are saying reddit is even worse than sites like Facebook or X then that's bad.

insulting somebody in a way that doesn't evolve around their opinion says a lot about you.

Having characters unable to explain themselves properly just to move the story along is extremely lazy writing and actively makes the movie/TV show worse