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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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Those are the users that cannot seem to grasp that Lemmy is NOT Reddit and that Lemmy wasn't created 2 weeks ago. "Sublem" and "Sublemmy" are so cringy it hurts. Please just call them communities.
Coming into an established venue and insisting everything change to be more like what you're used to is certainly A Choice.
I like to think most of it is people just genuinely not realising things already have a name, so as long as we continue to nip the "sublemmy" stuff in the bud it'll peter out. Saw a lot of the same stuff on Mastodon last year but it settled down pretty quick.
I don't disagree with you but, as someone who has recently jumped ship from Reddit, can you point to a glossary of terms to help us get our jargon down?
Edit: Formatting hard.
Honestly it's mainly just the ~~sublemmy~~ community thing, from what I've seen! Most other terms are the same, upvotes are still upvotes, subscribing is still subscribing, crossposting is still crossposting etc. Even cake day is the same! Shitposting is now beanposting, although we'll see if that one sticks.
Lemmy users are Lemmings. I'm not 100% sure what Kbin users have decided on but the one I've seen most in use is Kbinauts.
I keep seeing people refer to a "front page" which isn't really a thing that exists since it's completely different depending on which instance you're on, which feed you're looking at and how you sort it, but I have no idea what that was on Reddit either since I always stuck to my subscriptions.
I've also seen a couple people in support threads being confused between "instance" (the site an account or community is hosted on ie vlemmy.net) and "community", but that's not been too widespread.
"front page" is just your "subscribed" feed here.
The other difference here is that we don't have an "/r/all" (meaning everything on reddit), there is the "local" feed, that would be, "all" communities of the specific instance.
And there is an "All" feed, but it isn't all the communities on every instance, there you only see all the communities any user of your instance is subscribed to.
Yeah I understand how the feeds work but I keep seeing people reference seeing things on "the front page of lemmy.world" or challenging themselves to "make it to the Lemmy front page" and I'm just like...this makes no sense! 😄
Actually really useful. Thank you!
Well the flip coin is the same. New users coming to a place and using language they feel is natural, and then judging them for not using your own specific terminology is also "A Choice" It's not up to anyone what other people call things.
On Beehaw.org someone suggested "yeehives" as a word for the communities there, it kind of caught on enough to see sporadic use.
It's completely off the wall and I love it.
Yeehive sounds like ot was made by some primary school kid in the age of the modern internet trying to be cool and edgy
That makes it sound like Kanye is involved
For some reason Connect refers to everything older than 1 week as 1 week ago so my account appears as 1 week old when in reality its getting close to 2 years old
Instances work for me, as an engineer that verbage comes naturally
That's different, though, as it refers to the server hosting the communities.
Maybe let people call them whatever they like?