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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (2 children)

What instance is "literal Nazis"?

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

There are many that were defederated many months ago that aren't even the common ones discussed. I forget some of their names but you can review the defed lists. They are beyond the pale, open open racism, calls for open violence, CP, etc. I'm not talking about some double speak, bad policy maga stuff, I'm talking about cartoons showing minorities as animals, cartoons of lynchings, etc.

The fediverse is a big place.

Edit who the fuck downvotes this

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Edit who the fuck downvotes this

Fwiw, I see only 9 upvotes but 0 downvotes from PieFed.social. Meaning that your 2 downvotes must come from an instance that is defederated from by PieFed.social - likely hexbear.net if I had to guess. That is one of the downsides to not defederating from such places - you get to see and vote on a wider array of content, but they get to do the same to you as well, and unlike you, they may have their own priorities about how to treat such matters. e.g. I don't think I've ever downvoted anything at all from my current account (except once accidentally, easily remedied!:-), and if the situation came up I would rather explain my disapproval rather than merely downvoting... but they may do things differently, hiding behind the relative anonymity of a vote to try to silence / lessen the reach of your POV.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

So it goes. My question was more rhetorical. If someone takes issue with my identifying some instances that have that content, fuck em.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

I was speaking to the general practice of filtering in response to the echo chamber generalization, not the original post calling out instances. Personally I filter out porn instances because that's not what I'm here for. The nice thing about the app I use is that I don't see any posts from those instances but I can choose to see comments because people interacting on the posts I see are generally there for random reasons and are reacting instead of posting their whatever.