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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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Bean shitposts becoming popular across the entire Fediverse in just an hour is a live demonstration of how effective decentralization and federation protocols are. (self.showerthoughts)

submitted 1 year ago by IverCoder to c/showerthoughts

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post about a can of beans yesterday... literally just that. "Here's a can of beans"... since then, the beans have taken over 😅

I think the point of this shower thought is a good one though: despite not being centralized, the beans still spread in a very reddit-like fashion...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is great! This is the kind of wacky behavior that generates personality, community, media coverage, interest and curiosity, As ironic as it is, I think this is a milestone for the fediverse.

It’s also the beginnings of a collective conscious which means the fediverse is inching towards a critical mass of some sort.

I’m pretty sure Reddit back in its frontier days had several wacky trends take over.

Just my opinion but I’m loving it and I think it’s a good thing,