this post was submitted on 22 Jul 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:

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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[–] rbm4444@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe on mainstream social media rude comments overhang the good ones, not by quantity, but due to the amount of dislikes, big techs strategies of evidence to keep the users engagement, probably dislike a comment is worst then just ignore it. Note I'm not saying that it happens on Lemmy. I think it should be interesting a mechanism that put at the end of the thread the most disliked comments.

[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I mean, here's an upvote and a glass of filtered water. Anything else before I sit back down?

[–] Starkregen@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

Think again fuckface.

-throws the ball and runs away to cloud district-

[–] Novman@feddit.it 3 points 2 years ago

Maybe the reddit admins add toxicity to improve engagement? Post/comment manipulation seems common on internet today.

[–] GustavoM@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 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.

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[–] TwoGems@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[–] EtzBetz@feddit.de 3 points 2 years ago

I think this is normal with a smaller community. Also we are the ones that care more about a healthy community. The bigger a community gets, the more dickheads will exist in it.

[–] neocamel@lemmy.studio 3 points 2 years ago

I disagree, but I uovoted you anyway. ;-)

[–] Cistello@reddthat.com 3 points 2 years ago

I probably used this service more when it comes to upvotes and comments than Reddit I always used Libreddit

[–] fzacq9td@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

people are the same, they hate being criticized.

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