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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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

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

You're free to go thru my comment history, find one with lots of downvotes and point out to me where I wasn't 'adhering to basic decency.'

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Are you one of today's lucky 10,000 in learning what /s means?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

Damn those are actually some great thoughts imho - like https://lemm.ee/post/42493021. Fwiw I would have upvoted that one if I had seen it (I'm purposely not subscribed to showerthoughts, so I only see the ones that hit All).

Likewise, I see that Lemmy has a bit of a hive mind issue. At the same time it has an enormous toxicity issue, e.g. it is hexbear's own self-stated purpose for existence, and they refuse to limit their "dunk" sessions to those who consent to such, continuing beyond the boundaries of their own communities and instance. So we simultaneously would enjoy greater diversity of opinions while at the same time we have too much trolling happening to make that possible.

By the latter I mean that modding efforts seem one of the primary limiting factors here - e.g. I used to be a mod myself for two small gaming communities in Reddit but there's no way I'm doing that here. Reddit was far more toxic overall, but Lemmy has greater swings of both maximum friendliness (& that overall) while also significantly worse toxicity allowed in certain corners of the Fediverse.

Anyway, one possibility is that your posts merely went out to the wrong audience - as I said, *I* would have really enjoyed the aforementioned post, and upvoted and commented in it, if I had known it existed, and surely while those of us who enjoy such may be more rare than common across the Fediverse, we aren't entirely non-existent either?

This is where having a larger userbase, to allow such niche interests to flourish more readily, could help. Then again, we already trend more towards deeper conversations than are possible on Reddit anymore, so maybe it's doable here?

If you end up starting a community to put such thoughts into, I would love to join it?