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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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[–] Dieterlan 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think you might have that concept backwards, so the fediverse would have the least entropy out of all the social networks

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Well no because it is more spread out and chaotic

[–] Dieterlan 7 points 2 years ago

Well, that's true as well, I suppose. my point was that as entropy increases, useful energy decreases, and vice versa. Your comment made it seem like the opposite

[–] WhoRoger 2 points 2 years ago

Regular social networks run on data centres with just as much redundancy and decentralisation from the technical perspective. If anything, in the Fediverse only content that people actively seek gets duplicated to other instances, so the overall energy requirement is smaller.

On the other hand, I can't compare the effectiveness of small Pi computers people running at home for their instances, and huge server farms. I guess it's comparable to some degree, as most likely both use some shared resources and are also used for other things.