this post was submitted on 08 Aug 2023
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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

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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Like so, it would make scrolling through posts more cohesive and it would be easier to skim.

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[–] mysoulishome 20 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But shower thoughts are text posts…why do we need an image ?

[–] thefloweracidic 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was thinking in general for Lemmy, but this now seems more appropriate for an unpopular opinion community lol

[–] mysoulishome 2 points 2 years ago

I think you’re right 😂

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] thefloweracidic 1 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

.. It's a shower with a lightbulb on it. Not a shuttlecock. Who thought it was a shuttlecock? Not me, nope, that's for sure.

[–] abouttocomealive 1 points 2 years ago

I definitely did not think it was a rocket without ever really looking at it closely.

[–] Sanctus 7 points 2 years ago
[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Please, no.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Only in a compact view though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Not even in compact view on kbin. For us, thumbnails aren't automatically included in compact and I happen to hate both those things.

Lemmy is big enough that unless I did, there would be no getting away from seeing the same massive identical image over and over forever on all non-image posts, and any original photos would instantly become oases. Everyone would be forced to use those exact settings just to make it half-bearable. Fuck that.

Having just checked how this post looks on the logged-out lemmy site, this suggestion makes a hell of a lot more sense than it did, because this does not look to me like OP thinks it does, I assure you. I was all set to make fun of them and everything.

Really, it's just a want to make the sub icon more visible. Whole thing seems kinda niche, but you could make it happen on a user level. Just not by forcing every post to be an image post, please god

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Then each thumb swipe would only get me through two posts. Are you using an app? I've stuck with jerboa because it puts the community name at the top in a color. Makes it easy to scroll.

[–] thefloweracidic 1 points 2 years ago

I browse on PC, so maybe this should only be a PC thing?