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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.

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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 6 points 2 years ago

It's like consolewars (fuck Nintendon't) but more federated.

[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

def prefer small batch instances, keep it wierd

[–] macisr@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Same, i think i'll always be with the weird friends.

[–] gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago

This is the way!

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[–] flint5436@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Maybe that would be a good community. You know, like 2westernEurope4u but instance-based memes and banter.

[–] NBCooks@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

So I shouldn’t make a post asking which is the best lemmy community under 1k? I am tempted to create like 10 accounts and just hang out in these local “slow” communities.

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[–] AnonTwo@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It's so dumb, yet it's so natural that even knowing it's dumb sometimes people end up devolving into tribe wars by complete accident.

And then some do it because it's the easiest way to get people to do what you want to them to do. It's definitely best to try to keep it in the back of your mind as much as possible to avoid falling into the habit.

[–] blivet@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

One of the most enjoyable bits in REAMDE was about how the users of an MMORPG split into two warring factions over whether they preferred the default color palette or a custom version.

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[–] Kara@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I really hope that it'll be something we'll be able to avoid. We're all on the same federated system, we don't need to do this pointless "I would listen to you but you're a instance.lemmy.com user" unless they're from an instance that supports hateful content.

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[–] souperk@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

What's the Gentoo equivalent of an instance?

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[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just some blood for the Blood God, only natural.

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