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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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  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.
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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.

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At least that’s my calculation right now

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I didn’t look back after moving here. The only thing where Reddit still excels is its old content that you bump into when searching stuff on Google and the presence of official corporate accounts/ subreddits.

[–] TeaHands 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I went back by accident by following a search result, and was still logged in. Had a notification. It was a reply to a comment I'd made about a month prior, asking a question. In the comment I even attempted to clarify that it was a genuine question with no judgement attached, and I got a couple answers at the time.

Anyway, found myself back on Reddit with this belated comment reply. The person went on a whole rant related to my question, didn't answer it of course, but just went off on one accusing me of nefarious motives.

It's weird to think back on how stressful it was to interact over there for fear of being misinterpreted and drawing out the crazies. If something like that happens here I just block them and go on with my day safe in the knowledge that the nice folks have them massively outnumbered. And hence my nearly 2000 comments here over two accounts in the space of about six weeks...oh my.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Man I remember the same thing. I mentioned that my cats deworming pills are relatively expensive (as in expensive for a simple mass produced pill) and some person went on a rant how there are so many animals that are disregarded by their owners and what not. It’s strange.

I didn’t mention that I’m not buying them for her or that I’m avoiding other expenses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (5 children)

speaking of searching stuff, how does lemmy work in that space?

Like would I ever find this comment if I search it on Google?

"Alibaba DQC Matrix Peanut Butter"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

I tried searching for Kbin Enhancement Suite posts on Kbin via Google... Guess what? All the results came back for RES for Reddit! On Reddit.

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

There is a search engine being developed specifically for Lemmy for just this kind of thing: search-lemmy.com

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Zero results so far. Will be interesting to see how long it takes to index. EDIT: 24 hour later indexed (see my other comment)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

this is on Google? then I guess Google Indexes fediverse?

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

Yep. And 24 hour index time (perhaps even faster) isn't half bad.

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

Makes sense, websites and internet and such.

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

I believe there's people already working on that, but no idea how they're doing these days