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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • 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.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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.

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

At least unlike reddit people aren’t directly insulting you.

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

We have very different lemmy experiences

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

I'm pretty excited to see and check what gained traction

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Also, what was happening in that other site many of us used to be in so interactions between the same people talking the same points were so rare?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Bots. You never knew if you were talking to a bot.

Plus, way more assholes. Like way more.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago (11 children)

Usually its when I either offend the libs on world or the fake leftists on ml/hexbear. Sometimes if I'm particularly skilled I piss off both of them at the exact same time (usually by advocating for true liberation for the working class not under a so called "vanguard" but by and for the workers themselves)

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

I assume the right-wing propaganda planners have decided they need to counter something I said

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The biggest responses I've ever gotten by far have all been asking for alternatives to popular tech. 😏

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

it amazes me with what gets the most attention.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Usually there's enough context and it's recent enough I sort of remember. I haven't had a lot of ancient replies here, but Reddit was great for that, and that's exactly what I would think. What the hell are they talking about? What was really surreal was rereading what I wrote and vaguely remembering it, but sometimes the wording being a bit different than what I might say now. Not necessarily the point, just how I said it, as people do change with age. I don't regret anything I've every said though, it's why I've left my Reddit account alone, that plus it would probably be undeleted anyway and I've moved on.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

I sometimes write something that might be controversial, so unless I have a lot of free time I don't open Lemmy at all, lol.

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