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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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People should start making memes that explain how Lemmy actually works (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/showerthoughts

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Since it seems to be a common question for many new users.

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[–] ThatGuyFromMichigan 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Local view only shows posts hosted on this instance (planet). So only communities hosted on lemmy.world for example.

All view would include posts from other instances as well.

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

So should I have accounts on more than one instance? Which instance has the most communities?

[–] TeaHands 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No, where did you get that idea? If you want to view as much random content from everywhere as you can just browse by All. If you want a more curated experience, stick to your subscriptions. Local is sort of a weird limbo unless you're on an instance that has a dedicated topic (like the Star Trek instance, for example).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ok got it.

One interesting thing I found is I have a reddthat.com account and also a lemmy.world account. Using Jerboa, somehow browsing with the reddthat.com account is faster than using the lemmy.world account even if I'm browsing lemmy.world communities.

[–] TeaHands 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah as far as I understand it, reddthat will have a local-but-regularly-updated copy of the community and that's what you're seeing when you view it from there. So makes sense that it would load a lot faster. The problem is that with all the strain .world has been under, we had some issues federating new posts and comments out so they weren't actually making it to other servers local copies.

I know this recent upgrade was supposed to help with that part. Lots of growing pains at the moment!