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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish (feddit.org)

submitted 5 days ago by Teppichbrand@feddit.org to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world

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Keep posting them, but we should just copy the text and link to the source instead of screenshooting a couple of sentences like my mom, no? This would save some disk space and power consumption as well.

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[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 4 points 5 days ago

Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on !lowqualityfacts@lemmy.zip that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of 'teaser' for text posts (they also show a bit of the post's body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for 'dad jokes' for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn't do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.