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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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[–] Myrbolg 70 points 2 years ago (4 children)

For me it is lack of commercial interests (ads hidden in post), lack of bots, and lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts.

[–] bunnybum 31 points 2 years ago (3 children)

lack of "funny meme and jokes' posts

This is it for me. The Pavlovian posting and upvoting of shitty jokes in every. single. thread. I haven't bothered with reddit's comment section in years because of it. Here, the comments so far seem chill and appropriate for the posts.

[–] Gabu 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Narwhal bacons at midnight, fellow hydrohomie

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

I too choose this man's hydrohomie

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

I hated this one the most

[–] regretful_fappo 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The same shitty jokes at that, over and over and over again.

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

That's the other thing, people wouldn't do that if it didn't get them karma every single time. Karma isn't publicly displayed on Lemmy, and if the vision of very spread out communities comes to fruition it also just wouldn't make sense anyway.

[–] Myrbolg 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, I hope Karma won't be as prominent as on reddit, limiting jokes to those that are appropriate.

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

Agreed. On top of this I noticed a pretty hard decline in Reddit once the CCP bought a portion of reddit. Keeping business out of Lemmy will keep it honest for sure.

[–] Myrbolg 1 points 2 years ago

I missed that, they bought a stake in Conde Nast or how come?

[–] Nioxic 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

We can always make funny memes

i'd rather have quality content though.

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

Don't hold the Ads too high. If server costs for lemmy instances become too expensive, Admins might have to resort to ads and I would argue that reddits ads are way better than most intrusive web apps