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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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[–] emptyother 33 points 2 years ago (2 children)

A few is still better than one. But I think there will always be nerds who want to start their own server, enough that if a big server mismanage we are free to move to smaller ones and still receive the same posts.

[–] deweydecibel 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Receiving the same posts isn't quite the same thing without the same community, though.

You see two posts, both of the same gif.

One is upvoted 200 times, with 50 comments

The other upvoted 50 times with 2 comments.

What link do you think is more attractive? Both to you and to a passerby with no context?

[–] Dark3stWhite 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I wish that the same posts across multiple instances could be merged together. So instead we just see the one post upvoted 250 times with 52 comments

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Hopefully user migration will be implemented at some point to facilitate this ( https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/1985 ).

Would be great to be able to change instances and maintain an easily accessible record of posts/comments/etc.!