this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I mean, sure, if we're pretending you can't abandon accounts at will and make new ones elsewhere in the lemmy...verse.

The whole idea of "who" is kinda pointless.

Maybe I am the real Vanilla Puddinfudge. Maybe I'm not. What would it mean either way?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Hi Mr. Shankles, nice to see you again. /s

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Lemmy is also not overrun by AI bots and sock puppets.

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

It would be pretty easily though, if anyone starts to think that it's important.

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

This is what they want you to believe!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago
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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Oh, you pickled moon dumpling.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

Username checks out

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (6 children)

your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 day ago

Btw, your PMs being available to admins is the same on like every socmed. If you have to use lemmy as your secure method of communication (you shouldn't), at least use PGP, but lemmy isn't meant for that, use XMPP or Matrix or even Signal I guess.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Your privacy is the same on either. But now, anyone can gain that information, not just Reddit’s investors and partners.

It’s what you write on these platforms that affects your privacy.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

So can you on reddit.

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

People DM each other on Lemmy?

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

So, is it better to host your own instance?

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

Doesn't change the voting situation. Since your votes need to be seen by other instances, Lemmy needs a mechanism for federating votes. Since instances are untrusted, there needs to be some way of preventing manipulation. Thus, AFAIK, Lemmy simply shares your votes across instances, letting each one tally them up. As a side effect, any server admin of an instance you can interact with can also get a list of all your votes.

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

Man So much this.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago

The place is a Village rather than a City.

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