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this post was submitted on 22 Feb 2024
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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.
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Come on mate, it might have been the case at the inception of Lemmy but now there's interesting content everywhere, even in your bait post π
#nocomment
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This is just comment baiting
And itβs working
I also really appreciate about Lemmy how there can be a 2 day old thread on everything and I throw in my 2 cents and even after 2 days, that comment gets read. It really beats the endless reposts (and bots reposting top comments!) of reddit.
Has @showerthoughts ever been about silly shower thoughts on Lemmy or is it just hot takes here.
Better than Redditβs βguys, life is like bideo gameβ
We had a brief period where it was actual shower thoughts.
I recommend not using Lemmy while showering, it's bad for your energy bill. Also electronics.
Yeah, it just feels like ask lemmy but with jeopardy rules.
Leopardy.
The quality of comments on Lemmy, I've noticed, are far better than Reddit comments on average.
When you remove all the fluff, there's about the same if not more useful stuff in comment threads here, however on Lemmy there's way less fluff (again just what I've noticed).
I've noticed there are more absolutely batshit crazy takes.
Like what? Can you link?
See the reason I ask is because one way to ensure there are batshit crazy takes is to claim that there are. It puts everyone on guard, making everyone less rational.
Basically, this kind of talk is bad for morale, at the level of a community. This kind of talk, if itβs not reporting something specific and real, degrades the health of a community, the ability of that community to communicate internally.
If thereβs real batshit crazy stuff, it can be linked to. Consider it a sort of authenticity challenge, so weβre not all going into fight or flight mode based on zombie sighting reports, when there actually arenβt any zombies.
i always thought the constant "reddit is problematic" posting ruined the quality of subs and should've been limited to dedicated meta threads.
I prefer that to the amount of wildly bigoted comments I would see on Reddit.
I'll sometimes comment on stuff but overwhelmingly I don't. I was the same way on reddit. I just feel that I don't have anything meaningful to say so why say anything.
I find myself commenting a lot more here. It's more conversational than reddit. Comments are longer and not just one liner's, and the smaller community means my comments won't be buried. It also feels like a gateway drug to posting. I should post something today. I won't, but I should.
Yeah, I comment more and longer. Because I'm more confident it will be seen.
I have this same issue as well.
I just don't feel like I have anything insightful or meaningful to say.
But, I feel like I should in the community I mainly frequent since it's really quiet a lot and the main mod feels like the only person keeping things ticking along.
And that's the right way to approach it, but in a platform were niche communities are so empty, even a meaningless comment counts
But yeah, I try to follow the same approach, I'm interested in many things, and subscribed to a lot of communities, but why should I comment if it doesn't help or adds anything to the theme of the post
Well, If anyone reads this, keep this as a good habit, even if it feels a bit weird in here, comment when you are of help, and learn from others when you have nothing to say
Edit: I love how the replies to this are doing the exact opposite lol, take care boys, I actually got a good laugh from this
Seconded
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I think it was our lack of coordination...
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Thank you for your service
Good for you.
I know that was probably meant positively. But that's not how I read it initially, lol
I had to read it a few times first...
Good for you.
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