this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
3116 points (97.0% liked)

Showerthoughts

35707 readers
1668 users here now

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.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Nies221@lemmy.world 176 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Still better than the official reddit app.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 75 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

Smoke signals would be better than the official app.

[–] troublecat@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I've considered switching to carrier pigeons

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] Poe@lemmy.world 42 points 2 years ago

A surprisingly low bar

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world 152 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.

At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 96 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (6 children)

It's generally more like "Steve's 10 eur/mo cloud server in which they run ten other things next to Lemmy, which is written by two devs and barely held together by duct tape and prayers"

But that doesn't change the overall point.

[–] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)

it's that cheap? If I spun up an instance and paid less than $150 how many users would I be able to have before it implodes?

[–] ShittyKopper@lemmy.w.on-t.work 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

The instance I'm replying from is a 5 eur/mo box from Hetzner.

Your main concerns are gonna be active user count & storage space. Especially if you decide to allow image or god forbid video uploads. Having a bunch of inactive users aren't going to affect costs that much as long as they don't have, like, a milion subscriptions. (If they're all subscribed to the same community things will "deduplicate")

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments (6 replies)
[–] AnObscureTenet@lemmy.world 20 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Good point. Who the hell hosts their own server anymore?

load more comments (4 replies)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world 137 points 2 years ago (41 children)

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

[–] kobra@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (11 children)

Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

[–] OtakuAltair@vlemmy.net 56 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (20 children)

Use and recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.one, and vlemmy.net to others

Seriously, stop recommending large servers when lemmy hasn't been optimized for that yet. The point of decentralization is spreading out and still being connected; let's not waste that advantage.

[–] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 26 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I run https://thelemmy.club - people are always welcome here :)

load more comments (19 replies)
load more comments (10 replies)
load more comments (40 replies)
[–] CataclysmZA@lemmy.world 89 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] MargotRobbie@lemmy.world 88 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It just feels so weird to have big threads with good fresh discussions going on hours after the post.

Not to say there isn't an occasional asshole here and there during this wave, but I don't think reddit has ever felt like this at any point.

[–] meisme@lemmy.world 39 points 2 years ago (4 children)

It's because sorting comments by "hot" prioritizes new comments more than old comments even taking into account votes. So a 3d old comment with 50 votes might appear below a 2h old comment with 5 votes. Unlike Reddit which just pushes the first comments to the top and anything new will drown in the sea of comments and never surface or be seen.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] pspat@lemmy.world 70 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Would upvote but I keep getting server-side errors

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 61 points 2 years ago (11 children)

And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post

load more comments (11 replies)
[–] rockettaco37@lemmy.world 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It's early days here. Give it some time...

[–] KidsTryThisAtHome@lemmy.world 27 points 2 years ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Canopyflyer@lemmy.world 46 points 2 years ago (8 children)

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 21 points 2 years ago

Only at midnight.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] shoobie@lemmy.world 44 points 2 years ago (15 children)

For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great

load more comments (15 replies)
[–] liontigerwings@lemmy.world 43 points 2 years ago

To be fair, it worked well right before reddit cut off api access. This will probably happen everytime reddit does something stupid to drive away users. In other words, it could happen every two week based on how spez is lately.

[–] Anonymau5@lemmy.world 40 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I forgive it. It has tremendous potential

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Xylight@programming.dev 38 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] wwaxwork@lemmy.world 38 points 2 years ago

Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.

[–] Darkwatch00@lemmy.fmhy.ml 38 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's great to be here. All part of the fun of being apart of something new.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Reken@lemmy.world 36 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yeah, every time I try to upvote something, it'll take like 10-15 seconds to register

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Ricky@lemm.ee 33 points 2 years ago (6 children)

All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] aslaii@lemmy.world 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] manitcor@lemmy.intai.tech 30 points 2 years ago (1 children)

search actually works here.

already better than old reddit.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] Petter1@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] Labotomized@lemmy.world 28 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Not sure if this is meant to be negative or positive but I for one like all the growing pains and issues. It makes the whole experience a little more engaging for me. I really like reading up on what problems are happening and how the teams are working towards solutions. I especially like the technical details that are just a little over my head because it’s fun to learn about!

[–] henfredemars@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] nikdog@lemmy.world 26 points 2 years ago

The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community

[–] Moonwalk@lemm.ee 24 points 2 years ago (7 children)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 23 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.

load more comments (7 replies)
[–] Riktastic@laguna.chat 21 points 2 years ago (5 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.

load more comments (5 replies)
load more comments
view more: next ›