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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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I like these federated services being kinda "rough around the edges" (programming.dev)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

"harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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[–] Mutelogic 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unpopular opinion: it should stay a little bit slow. Every other commercialized platform trains us for immediate gratification.

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

Agreed. "Losing" Reddit was and is still painful, but I'm more and more convinced that it was necessary. Both in general and for me as a person. I'm going to try to get back into reading and other oldschool, 'slower' stuff. Modern internet has been poisoning our brains for like half a decade at the very least.

[–] Mutelogic 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Highly recommend getting back into reading. I stopped reading books for a while and completely forgot the joy of it. Don't be disappointed if your reading discipline isn't what it used to be. It's like a muscle and I am still in the process of re-training it.

One of the best tools that helped me was signing up for my library's digital service (Libby). It's so easy and accessible that it kind of blew my mind. I also invested in a refurbished backlit e-reader that could display the epub files that I borrowed from the library... Utter magic!

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

Thanks - I have the entire Stephen King catalog and I think I stopped somewhere around 2017 or so, so I've got a good bit of backlog to catch up to.