this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
2040 points (96.7% liked)

Showerthoughts

30044 readers
1300 users here now

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.

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. Avoid politics
    • 3.1) NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out
    • 3.2) Political posts often end up being circle jerks (not offering unique perspective) or enflaming (too much work for mods).
    • 3.3) Try c/politicaldiscussion, volunteer as a mod here, or start your own community.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
quinten
vatlark
forkball
Thekingoflorda
2040
Lemmy is so good right now for no particular reason (self.showerthoughts)
submitted 2 years ago by snek to c/showerthoughts
327 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

It's not the kids, not the lurkers, not the mods... y'all just nice people. Lemmy's got a good vibe going... or at least enough windows that we can close if the vibe gets shit.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Hypersapien 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

The content is nice. The performance, not so much.

[–] ryno364 12 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Yeah it’s got some growing pains. Anything worth it’s salt will have growing pains.

Even Reddit did back in the day. Ya know back when Aaron Schwartz was running the show.

[–] Goauld_are_Pokemon 2 points 2 years ago

I had a reddit account from early on and lemmy feels similar. Its gonna be great watching it evolve

[–] Hypersapien 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Oh, yeah. It's inconvenient, but hopefully it will get better.

[–] ryno364 3 points 2 years ago

It will. The only way to fix problems is to release your application so you can see the problems. That’s how software works.

[–] sebinspace 3 points 2 years ago

I get better performance from the colorful pills at the gas station

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

Try lemm.ee instance and Liftoff (wefwef.app) apps. Awesome speed.

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

Can we say we "made it" when megacorps start making their own instances and communities?

[–] Hypersapien 3 points 2 years ago

I think we'll have "made it" when You Tubers devote videos to reading Lemmy posts.

[–] Hypersapien 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think they'll use the actual Lemmy software. They'll probably make their own thing using the ActivityPub protocol.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

And we'll start seeing "to view the whole post, register at Jojo Corp and get 25% of your first purchase!"

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

Based 😁❤️

[–] Hypersapien 1 points 2 years ago

Oh, crap. I just thought of something. What if they try bribing instance owners to stay federated with them?

[–] NSA 1 points 2 years ago

Yeah, I'm hoping the overall speed of the site improves rapidly. I can't seem to upvote comments and my first comment appeared to get stuck posting until I refreshed the page and it did in fact post.