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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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Lemmy resembles the old reddit experience so well that they even emulate the old reddit server performance (self.showerthoughts)

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

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[–] Grdtrm 24 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I'm pretty new to this federation idea, but if I'm on a small instance of Lemmy and browsing c/[email protected], would I still see degraded performance?

Are the instances mirroring the content of the communities hosted in another instance?

(Edit: thanks everyone, your responses are really helpful!)

[–] CataclysmZA 23 points 2 years ago

Yes, that's how federation works. Your local host may be faster than the instance you are browsing content on, especially if that other instance is getting hugged to death or DDOSed. But even if that is happening, the rest of the Fediverse works just fine.
No, instances are not mirrored. That's probably possible in activitypub (the protocol that Lemmy and similar Fediverse platforms use), but unlikely to happen due to server resources and funding.

Think of it as a bunch of forums on the Internet, where an account made on one forum allows you to comment and see content on other forums, but you don't need a separate account for all of them. Federation somewhat simplifies things, but there are drawbacks that I won't get into here.

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The top three instances a currently overcrowded. I recommend checking out a smaller instance (for example https://laguna.chat).

Smaller instances are still able to access to same content. But it is just a different server that processes the content.

[–] smeenz 13 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

But are they ? I posted a comment a couple of days ago via lemmy.world on a 'remotely hosted' community, and then viewed the same post via its 'native' instance, and my comment never showed up, even days later.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Well, if its too slow, you can just self-host it.

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[–] S_204 20 points 2 years ago (30 children)

It's slower than reddit ever was.... at least in the 14 years I was there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

It's funny seeing famiar usernames, heh.

It's speed largely depends on the instance you're connected to. There's definitely scaling problems going on with some instances.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Try lemm.ee instance. It is REALLY fast compared to lemmy.world or sh.itjust.works. And it is also general instance, not some theme-specific.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago (8 children)

I would just wish there would be a new Reddit view as well. It is just so annoying having to click on the images to zoom in

[–] meekah 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I prefer having to click on the image, but I keep wanting to resize it like with RES TT_TT

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[–] Nerii 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, this is taking me back to 2013 reddit. Really enjoying it here. I'm hoping it continues to walk down this path.

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[–] Sir_Simon_Spamalot 14 points 2 years ago

Gotta start somewhere...

[–] FlashMobOfOne 14 points 2 years ago (7 children)

I love that your first instinct after being here just a few hours is to bitch about things. Maybe donate and thank the devs for the free work they're doing so you don't have to deal with the bullshit on Reddit, and then in a month or so when the user influx has calmed down a bit, then you can bitch if you want.

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[–] Philolurker 14 points 2 years ago

I even got an error page the first time I tried to load this post. Just like old times! 🥲

[–] jetsetdorito 13 points 2 years ago

My app erroring out halfway through reading the title

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

That depends on the instance you’re on.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 years ago

Join a smaller instance. That is what I did and I’m having no performance issues now.

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