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:
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.
So was Twitter way back in the day (I’m talking ~ 2006 when I still worked in tech news). In a similar way, I think it’s up to us ~~canaries~~ early adopters to help them learn.
There was a time when no one knew how to @ someone and the pound sign was still known as the pound sign. People learned (and yes, platforms got much better and more polished). They can learn again. But we teachers need patience and kindness when helping them.
I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.
I would, too. Because I've literally seen Reddit users complain that it's too hard when it's just as easy as signing up for Reddit outside of a few instances that make you jump through hoops to sign up.
I don't understand any of that shit. Nerd
I do read hardcopys of 2600 though
It's been like this in some online communities since mIRC was popular. mIRC was not user friendly and people had to know how to access it, change servers, use commands. This seemed simple to me back then but most of my friends could not be bothered.
With Meta's slop, TikTok, and Reddit being so easy people rarely step outside those bubbles anymore.
In my opinion, IRC is much easier to join than any meta slop, generally speaking you can just /connect check the /list and /join a popular room.
Meanwhile to join meta you need to first make an email, then create an account, fill a bunch of forms (and then I always get automatically banned after acc creation without posting anything lol)
See even this is over my head. I have no idea what a tor network is. Maybe next year I will know more.