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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

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
    • 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy doesn't have videos and this is funny if you think about it

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

The lack of video support is understandable tbh in 2 ways.

  • Storing a bunch of videos are really costly for the instance owners
  • Direct Youtube play on Lemmy directly probably won't ever happen, since Lemmy uses an open embed protocol (opengraph) and YT doesn't or something like that. There was an issue about this topic on Github but can't find it.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (5 children)

That doesn't change the fact that this problem exists. Reddit's superior multimedia support makes it a more competitive social media platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

the best reddit was the one before you could post media inline. before the covered the fornt page in nonsense. when it was a link aggregator with threaded discussion, and nothing more.

i sure miss that reddit. whatever the fuck youre talkin about.. thats not reddit, thats Reddit©.

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

By this logic Instagram and TikTok are better than either, and yet the more any social media site becomes like those two, the more quickly I want to leave it.

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

Anok most likely means that the average Joe prefers convenience over freedom/privacy etc, and this is a convenience part that Lemmy seriously lacks in currently.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Thank you for saving my time.

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

Can't argue with that.

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

If reddit never introduced videos they wouldn't have the outrageous cost of hosting and serving them (which they do with third party cloud services) eating into their bottom line so much.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

LoL, and so fortuity landed before us. So we jumped, and landed in the Fediverse. Yay! At least that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it.