Showerthoughts
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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- The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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.
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.
My first thought is always "Must be Nicole the Fediverse chick again" π
Normally people just hardcore virtue signaling.
Most of the time I know exactly what I'm getting if I see more than maybe 3+ comments. Usually it's me saying something anti-communist, something on brand enough for me.
At least unlike reddit people arenβt directly insulting you.
Me is, how stoned was I.
Usually means you got featured on hexbear
what's hexbear
If you don't know, count yourself hella lucky and move on with your day.
A fictional entity used by right wingers on Lemmy to victimize themselves.
When you had hex with a bear last night but can't remember.
Immediately go to my comments to see whats getting downvoted to hell.
I just assume I said something factually wrong and now dozens of helpful people are lining up to correct me.
Uhm, acshually... βοΈ
And then all of them are "Nicole".
I got a message from nicole with a pic. I thought it was a scammer or something. Just a one off thing. Is that not the case? Is Nicole a lemmy thing?
Nope, your first instinct is right, itβs a spammer. But itβs one of the few specific spammers that almost everyone has run into on lemmy, so itβs just a joke. Like saying you met a Nigerian prince who offered you a huge sum of money.
I have yet to be messaged by this person. Dunno what anybody is talking about. In fact, I've never actually been messaged by anybody on lemmy.
The Polish Partier.
i have a different pic in my inbox. do i suppose to collect them all? i want a rare Nicole now
What's the att/def on your Nicole? I'll trade you mine - just pulled a disappearing Nicole. No idea what the att is, but given that it disappeared from my deck, I must imagine the def is wicked high
I have them both, so... Yes?
I have none :(
Both? I have three. Are there more?
Oh shit there are three!
I just got mine today, like some tribal initiation
Still haven't gotten one. Guess the bots don't like me.
I guess I'm not special enough, Nicole doesn't want to talk to me.
Is it normal for people to regret what they said on here? Because I tend not to change my mind from downvotes and dumb responses. I do block people though
I donβt want to deal with arguing especially since half the responses clearly only read the first sentence of my comment. I donβt have the energy for it. So Iβm on an instance with downvotes disabled and rarely check my inbox.
If people like my contribution they can upvote, if they donβt like it they can downvote or argue back, but I donβt have the energy to give to that, so I probably wonβt see it.
My only regrets are having to read stupid responses that completely missed the point of what I said because they want to argue with what they think I said.
Occasionally I learn something new from responses, which changes my perspective.
I agree - A lot of people seem so prepared for someone to disagree with them that they seem to misfire on people they agree with. I try to avoid this by starting my comments with "I agree" π ... though even then some people still get confused π«
What are you talking about? You're way off base, and completely unreasonable. It's so typical of you people that I have a generalized baseless belief of. What about this other person that has nothing to do with this? Do you agree with them, too? I bet you also hate soldiers defending our country, and probably kittens too.
Downvotes sometimes make me want to clarify what I wrote on the assumption that it got misinterpreted.
Has that ever worked for you?
I do it a lot and can't think of a single time it worked.
Occasionally. Other times it makes people angrier
Looking through some of my controversial comments, it seems like it worked maybe 1/3 - 1/2 of the time?
I've seen a number of comments with a visible edit that have an even split between down and up votes. I can only assume the edit worked. Not like votes mean anything on Lemmy. It's kinda nice not having the overall "karma" visible at all times.
My thought was more "which of the things I wrote triggered such a reaction?" I'm often surprised.
Often followed by, "I said that?"
Then you read your original comment and, no, you didn't say that; someone's just trying to gaslight you or they're straw manning.