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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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A lot less annoying then endlessly filtering content by community and user

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are referring to literally everyone you disagree with as a Nazi. You are an example of someone who lives in a toxic filter bubble.

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

No, I don't. When I call people Nazis and fascists it's because I know what both of those words mean, being literate.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Then you are missing the point because there are tons of people who disagree with you who aren't Nazis. OP is talking about how it's great how you can only talk with people you agree with.

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

It has been awhile, but there were some Lemmy instances that people made to discuss Alt-Right viewpoints. They are all defederated now, but they caused quite the stir back in the day. Look it up. Here's a start:

So, granted that there are not really (self-proclaimed neo-) Nazis here now, but this is still a fairly recent series of events in the shared consciousness of Lemmings. Also, fascism is alive and well world-wide, and on Lemmy very much in the open and in the here and now.

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

FYI, a few of those links are dead

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

It seems that Discuss.Online keeps archival copies of such older messages rather than delete them after a defederation action. Try viewing them on that instance.

On a separate matter, this is a brand-new message that for that and perhaps other reasons I doubt you've seen but that you may be very interested to know about: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/6127949/5423163. The post itself is talking about the upcoming defederation between jlai.lu and lemmygrad.ml, which I'm sure you know about, but what I wanted to call your attention to is in the OP's comment where they immediately start talking about a method to use a 2nd account or some other method to bypass that defederation attempt. They also float an idea to change the Lemmy sourcecode so that admins can no longer control which instances their users can access - this seems like an enormous security issue to me though (e.g. CSAM and other outright violent rhetoric that could get someone in trouble if it were on their machines).

Anyway no matter how you slice it, it is uh... "interesting". The more of such discussions I see, the more glad I am that I switched to PieFed that does not depend upon the Lemmy sourcecode at all - even though Discuss.Online was great.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You are replying to a comment thread that is about blocking Nazis, it's completely disingenuous to act like that's not a legit problem and that anyone is talking about anything other than actual fucking Nazis. They are real. No one said everyone they disagree with is a Nazi because that's fucking stupid.

[–] [email protected] -4 points 2 months ago

No, OPs point was that they can block people they disagree, with the person above in this thread brought up Nazis when people pointed out how toxic that behaviour is in creating filter bubbles.

I.e. they brought up an extreme example at one end of the spectrum to make a point when we were discussing the spectrum more broadly

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

No shit, genius.

For example, the liberals endorsing genocide for realpolitik aren't fascists, they're just doing what American liberals have done since the founding of liberalism as an ideology.

I disagree with them but don't call them Nazis and don't think their opinions on other things shouldn't be heard.