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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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The best part about Lemmy/Kbin etc now are that downvotes aren’t hidden, rightfully so. Just because a set of people don’t agree with you doesn’t mean you shouldn’t have the same visibility as somebody that is more agreeable to a set of people.
Niceness… will change and evolve over time as more and more people join. :-)
Smaller communities > larger communities.
Definitely agreed for the most part.
New guy here. Reddit exodus. Got perma-banned today. Funny how after 11-years, I'm suddenly hateful and "promoting violence." 3 reports in 2-months. Huh.
This is gonna sound paranoid, but I think I pissed someone off and they followed me around reporting me.
Anywho, posts seem more mellow here, more thoughtful, fewer childlike reactions.
Ouch… sorry to hear that. Reddit has definitely gotten Facebook level of scummy. I tried deleted my account 2x, only for those assholes to restore it. Now if only perma bans could make an account and all it’s content to disappear from the site, haha. I was at 9yrs in terms of account age.
On one hand downvotes are an expression of negativity, but on the other hand downvotes are an outlet for negativity.
Meanwhile, I'm scratching my head trying to figure out why a bunch of the top comments here got like one downvote each, lol.
Haha you know I’ve seen that too and I can’t recall if this was the case on Reddit in the early days before they started fucking around with scoring.
Voting on Reddit was originally intended to be used as moderation rather than to express agreement or disagreement. That may be too subtle for a huge userbase.