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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

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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.
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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.

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A lot of people say fedditors but that sounds way too derivative of reddit

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[–] [email protected] 590 points 2 years ago (15 children)
[–] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago

This so far seems to be the generally accepted term that's been making it's way around the platform here recently.

[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago

It’s the only reasonable answer given the name really

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 years ago

This and it isn't even an option

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

And at some point, someone looking for a payday^1^ is going to take video of us being herded off a cliff by an asshole^2^ even though we don’t actually do that unless provoked, and it will become a totally wrong impression of us that enters the common knowledge base.

^1^ every online tech journal

^2^ spez

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Ironic, since lemmings don't actually jump off cliffs. The people making the documentary (Disney) that's famous from actually threw them over the cliff to make it interesting.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

Could only ever be this!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

DMA Design FTW! (And thanks Psygnosis :-)

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

Yeah this was already decided a while back. It's also why so many communities have AI-created banners with Lemmings doing various weird things.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago

The only correct response.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I saw that someone has also suggested calling communities c/liffs, to go along with the Lemming theme. I thought it fit.

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

I like calling communities "slice" better, because even without the context, the people can guess what it may be. The context is a range of sources quoting:

A group of lemmings is known as a ‘slice' of lemmings.

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

It would also go with the idea to call us "Lemons", kind of like "slices" of lemon pie!

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Indeed, this is the way.

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

It writes itself really