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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I think a bit the opposite: I'm really worried about the trend to give people only information they care about. I think it's essential to be able to have information about everything. Of course there will always be stuff you don't care about but having it automatically filtered out is dangerous in my opinion. In GAFA-powered social networks, you are only given pieces of information about your own opinion, you never have something that make you question yourself about your opinion. The power of independent and open media like Lemmy is to not rely on such biasing algorithms.

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

There's a nuance here that you're missing - self-curating your social media experience is vastly different from the algorithm hellhole that is the modern corporate social media landscape. You can filter out any dissenting opinions or facts, but you can in real life, too. And like in real life, it takes a lot of active effort to get to that point. Whereas the algorithm will do that for you without you even knowing it.

I'd say that self-curated social media is like going off to college or moving to a new city while the algorithm is like living in the town you grew up in. I grew up in a very liberal state, but there were about 3 non-white kids in my entire high school the year I graduated, and it wasn't until I was introduced to Tumblr in college in the late 2000s that I first heard words like "transgender." And Tumblr is the most self-curated social media that I've ever seen. Back then, you couldn't even follow hashtags - just people. So your front page was exclusively people that you followed and the posts that they reblogged from people that they followed.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

You don't have to use filters, just like you don't have to subscribe to subreddits on Reddit. You can just use the default front page if you are afraid of tailoring it to your tastes.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Yep. I just raw dog All for the past 6 hours most of the time. The only communities I've blocked are the most active German ones because I don't speak German.

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 days ago (2 children)

I think it attracts a certain type of person to Lemmy in the first place; someone who would have probably used the original Reddit back in the day

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

That explains the age demographic

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Other than the one we are all thinking of here, I can't say I really agree.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Almost everyone is on Lemmy.world, so.... I don't know. Don't think they made a choice. People who are not on Lemmy.world made a choice at least.

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

Not sure if a third is everyone

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago (9 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).

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