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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

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[–] SuperSynthia 40 points 11 months ago (5 children)

Considering a big problem with conversion on Reddit is people just reacting to the headline I’d say it’s a win. I’ve noticed here when people do comment it’s more nuanced because they actually read the article.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 11 months ago (3 children)

The article summary bot helps my lazy ass lol

[–] SuperSynthia 9 points 11 months ago

Hey nothing wrong with that. I like it myself

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Though often the bot skips important parts and make the story confusing.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

I love it too :-) On specific subjects, where I really want my mind or the content like pics etc, because "important " for me (trans, Gaza), i click the link though

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago

Also, I'm often like... there's one comment and I generally don't agree with it, but I also don't want to make an ass of myself, so let's skim that article first and pick some good parts to slam this dude with. Often I find that I was wrong.

[–] Contramuffin 3 points 11 months ago

I wonder if the reason for this is not due to having less comments, but instead because Lemmy simply has a different demographic. For one, I've noticed significantly fewer bad-faith arguments compared to on Reddit. And discussions topics that would have otherwise been trolled to hell and back ended up having reasonably impartial conversations.

I've read that Lemmy users are generally fairly old, compared to users from other social media. I wonder if that has a role in how discussions play out on Lemmy

[–] stankmut 2 points 11 months ago

There are plenty of posts on Lemmy where many of the commenters clearly didn't read the article. It just depends on how click-baity the title is.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago

Except with some libs/racists/etc but yeah I agree for the majority.