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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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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Reddit has a dedicated Tor site

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

Update: Reddit is ass

Fuck corporate.

GO FEDIVERSE FOREVER 🏆

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

Holy shit, I actually managed to make an anonymous account over Tor. Now lets see how long before I get banned/shadowbanned. Didn't even think this was possible.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

I just wish the people in the subs I mod and post in would post some too. I feel like I am just posting for myself in those subs. Hell I am not a mod in c/trailrunning and it has like 170 members and no one post. I was the last person that posted. I know people are looking because someone is upvoting the things I post but no replies, no conversation. I don't know what to do to drive engagement.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 15 hours ago

I didn't know that community existed! Not sure what to post there yet but I'll join

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

Wait, reddit doesn't allow tor anymore? I remember posting a drug-related TIFU using tor and a throwaway acc, but that was years ago

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

At least we can all say that we are famous on the internet.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago

Even on big websites like Wikipedia there are only a few hundred major editors that write most of the content and they all know each other. On Youtube you tend to get to know everyone in your filter bubble as well.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I get around that problem by simply never looking at your usernames

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago

I just suck at remembering names. I've started remembering people by their Profile picture more than their username

[–] [email protected] 2 points 21 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

Your username would make a good meme.

"Were cat

Now am what?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

same and i block the ml and the holier than thou accounts.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

I honestly have no clue why are some instances so hated here, but I'm going to assume it's politics.

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

politics is as toxic as its on reddit unfortunately, the people who were banned there came here made thier own "instance" and just became the same mods.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago)

You are on an instance that has defederated lemmy.ml, which is why you never see their toxicity. You can type the url and visit the instance yourself, its toxic. Its the reason why your instance admin blocked them.

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

Meh, wake me when it has an i2p presence

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As for posting stuff on the internet, I don't care anymore. I just try to not post stupid shit, and be decent to other people.

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

I’ve had the misfortune of posting on Craigslist Forums and then having at least 1-2 people shit on me or call me a moron

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.

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