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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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  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
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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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[–] dojan 23 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I'd love to be able to block an entire instance. @lemmynsfw has a tonne of creepy-ass communities dedicated to posting pictures of female celebrities. There's never any sort of real content, just celebrities, sometimes in revealing clothes, and creepy titles like "beautiful" or "wow" or something like that.

Was just scrolling through the All feed and saw one for Sadie Sink. The entire thing gives me the willies, it's so gross.

[–] Odelay42 7 points 2 years ago

Pretty sure it's mostly one user creating all those communities, too. Odd behavior.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

If you are using android, connect for lemmy can block instances. It is much more peaceful. It even blocks the comments from the users. Although you can have them show as you come across them if you so choose.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

There apps that can filter entire instances

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

This is horrible imo. I personally turned off NSFW since I don't really care about missing out on gore or the likes.

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

Except people use NSFW to mark spoilers as well

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

Guess I am missing out. Lemmy needs to add a spoiler feature lol.

[–] dojan 1 points 2 years ago

I have NSFW off, as far as I know those communities aren't NSFW. They're just incredibly creepy, since it's obviously ogle material and not some sort of like, fan community.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

That is already possible, at least on the 2 apps I've used. Don't know about the browser version, but most apps have this option.

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

FYI: I use this usercript to block whole instances: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/469297-block-lemmy-instances You need to edit line 17

Here adapted to work also with MLMYM (https://old.lemmy.world): https://pastebin.com/z0mShfDP

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

The real content doesn't appear in its feed when you're not logged in (due to being NSFW), so it misleadingly seems like the celebrity stuff is the only content there. You need to visit specific communities such as [email protected].

[–] dojan 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't want the real content, I don't want any content from that place.

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

Then why did you even browse it?

[–] dojan 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don’t. It shows up on the all feed.

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

Understandable. In that case, blocking it is the best you can do.