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Showerthoughts

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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report, the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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I realize it won't be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it's a perfect signal that I've done more than enough scrolling for the day

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Guess that's enough internet for me today

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

The current scale of Lemmy is appealing. It doesn't have the same breadth but I happily trade the toxic elements of Reddit, etc, for a little breadth.

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

I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Same! Lemmy is one of my favourite places on the internet and it's comfy to me. I'm also excited to watch it grow and become more popular! 😃

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.

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

The opportunities for discussions and such is fun, but I miss the memes from Reddit. Lemmy is almost painfully unfunny.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.

Honestly, it gives me hope.

My best experiences online have been as part of smaller communities where you can actually know and recognize other people. I see people commenting on threads and I can remember them talking in a different thread (or multiple threads). So it is much easier to know 'ok that guy is touchy about this thing but is otherwise a decent person' and not treat everyone like a 1-dimensional character.

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

There is also a place to politely challenge others, especially when you see more out on a long (touchy) expressions.

I describing myself there on that limb as well of course. I've found myself well challenged several times on a limb.

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

Ugh the crusaders are the worst, they're just nasty

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

I find the people that I disagree with have much better points

Yeah same. I've had many more educational moments on Lemmy, in both directions, than I ever did in 10 years on Reddit

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Le this narwhal bacon midnight that's what she said doggo.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

It is nice to not have to doomscroll too much in Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Even more, it's nice that you couldn't if you tried. this is why i left reddit and came over here. Some good memes, some good posts, some nice comments, then in 15 minutes you are out of stuff and you naturally put your phone down. Perfection

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

it is nice having Enough content

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 week ago

Comment quality is also very well balanced...

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