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

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance (self.showerthoughts)
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[–] unknown_name 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But why do I have separate profiles for each instance? Is it because I signed up in three instances? Is the only way to rectify this, to delete accounts?

[–] Ghostalmedia 3 points 1 year ago

Imagine if you registered an email address with gmail, hotmail, and iCloud. You’d have three separate inboxes.

And like email, which is also federated, you don’t need a gmail address to message gmail people, or a hotmail address to message hotmail people. You can signup with one domain / instance, and subscribe to communities from another domain / instance.