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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: 1

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
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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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Underrated benefit of lemmy is like minded people will tend to join the same instances and if I don't want to interact with those groups I can just filter the whole instance. (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Yes, most people will want to do this at a minimum with Lemmy.ml and lemmygrad.ml (actually most instances already have defederated with the second, but it doesn't hurt).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's wrong with lemmy.ml? It's a pretty generalist instance if you ask me. The only issue I have with it is that it doesn't block obvious troll instances like lemmygrad or the one that's even worse by default but you can do that yourself these days.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's full of tankies. Many of the mods of major subs such as politics or world news are tankies and will block anything remotely critical of Russia or China and censor anyone who says, for instance, that Ukraine has the right to take the fight to Russia. It's definitely more covert than lemmygrad is, but after about 6 months there, it became abundantly clear to me that nothing good was coming out of that place.

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

I find Lemmy in general tends to lean quite authoritarian autocracy-ish; that feels more like a reflection of the general user base.

I don't like that in the slightest to be clear but I do think it's true.

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

I don't feel that that's true if you remove the .ml's.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Make a joke at russian or China's expense on there, then please report back haha

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

Lemmyml has a lot of tankies and other weird characters

Also they have a mod/admin problem. (Don't you dare question the tankie rhetoric)