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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.
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To add to that: I think it's actually worthwhile to write longer texts here compared to reddit because of two reasons: 1) people here want Lemmy to succeed so they put more time and effort in to get things going, and 2) it's more likely for that text to be seen by others because there aren't 2.000 other commenters but maybe 20.
True. The sense of anticipation of a new home in which to settle seems genuine. Also, I agree that a smaller group where users actually read the posts and interact with each other validates the purpose of investing the time to share one's views with people who are actually interested.
This specific issue is why I pivoted to mostly lurking Reddit – outside of the hobby subs, discussion of any relevance to the content posted is pretty hard to come by (like fucking askreddit??????how is that such a circlejerk of one-liners)
I have to either dig 10+ replies in to a tangentially related top-level comment, or scroll past the shit jokes and hope there's something before hitting downvoted troll bedrock. This could well be a scale issue that we'll see in time, but hopefully enough people can keep setting up and joining instances to mitigate it
My only concern is that Google doesn't seem to be indexing lemmy pages. So even if we add content that might be helpful it is not getting any screentime.
To add to that, searching isn't as simple as "best laptops reddit" if the knowledge is spread across the fediverse. That's something I'd be interested to see
That seems like a problem that search providers will have a strong incentive to solve from their end as and when finding those fediverse results becomes essential.
Your second point is exactly why I rarely made much of an effort in the more popular posts. I was a regular commenter with detailed comments on the dog training sub because it was a small group and most comments were top so that folks needing help could find the info. There were rarely comments more than 2 layers deep.