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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.
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I think the influence on Reddit was deeper than a lot of people have considered. The hivemind was so strong it made it difficult to have decent and useful discussion, even the puns that muddied down nearly every post's comments achieved that end. The amount of posts I've seen of people feeling much more comfortable actually interacting on Lemmy, in my mind, lends weight to how Reddit wasn't a place for objective dialogue. That's why it felt so adolescent, like sitting at a high school lunch table.
I wouldn't say it felt adolescent. Adolescence is full of misunderstandings about the world, but usually there's at least some internal logic where you can see how a wrong understanding is logically taken to the wrong conclusion. The start and end are both wrong, but the steps from the start to the end are right. At least that was what I remember from my days of adolescence.
Reddit actually felt more lazy than adolescent. It's like most people just couldn't be bothered to think (or read for that matter). The vast majority of comments just felt low-effort or even no effort (like the case where people just comment "This") and opinions are formed solely on "what's the first feeling I get" than then get defended into absurdity, because changing your opinion with new information is a cardinal sin on Reddit. Sometimes you could get an intelligent discussion but, especially in recent years, you get the equivalent of a thumbs up if someone agrees with you or just straight up hate if someone disagrees.
Ugh! The number of times I got some snarky reply making a point that I’d just made!
If you can’t stand reading, that’s okay. Just go look at some jpegs or something. Don’t make it everyone else’s problem by being an ass.
My favorite has been the "I'm not going to read all that", which I've gotten on multiple occasions in recent years. And I get it, I tend to write long comments when I am trying to convey an idea but I'm not writing entire essays without a filter. I am editing it down to what I would consider the most important parts. But it seems I should strip away all nuance and simplify it to a ELI5 level and not have it longer than 300 characters? If I wanted to do that I would be on Twitter.
Yup. Sometimes, nuance is important. If someone’s “not going to read all that”, then okay. Just don’t comment then, either! They can’t possibly add something constructive to the conversation.