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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:

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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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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i’m doing it because I want to make the fediverse more friendly place, in hopes of making it more welcoming for new users, and the nicer place in general. But I wonder how much is just less bots.

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[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Then you haven't posted enough and/or love the "herd mentality" -- it's my 1 month in and I already been massively downvoted twice by randoms with multiple accounts.

[–] TheFriendlyDickhead@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

In my experience it depends strongly on the comunity. Those meme comunitys are on their way to become reddit two, command wise. But most communities that are made to have a discussion have been realy nice so far.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Um....it actually happened on non-"meme communities". Can't mention their names for obvious reasons, but yeah.

[–] pornhubfan@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

can't mention their names

I don't blame you for not wanting to name-drop but ya know people can see your post history?

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

There is a major difference between checking my post history for "culprits" and me saying it out loud who did what and who did not. :^)

[–] Nameunknown12@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Tbh these instances feel alot more like an echo chamber than most subreddits did