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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] Potfarmer@lemmy.world 77 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Give us an option to block memes as well then, my biggest issue with Lemmy is the tsunami of terrible and practically unavoidable memes. I don't ever see sports content, rarely see NSFW content, there is a fair amount of Elon spam, but really the worst are the memes. Even doing my best to hide the meme communities they are unavoidable.

[–] ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 17 points 1 year ago

The main problem being that people have dug up the last 10 years of reddit memes to repost then on Lemmy.

[–] induna_crewneck@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

If you're not here for memes or porn then why?!

/s

[–] lolreconlol@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

If we hid meme communities, I'm not sure there would be any posts left.

[–] JeffCraig@citizensgaming.com 3 points 1 year ago

I don't mind memes but holy shit most of them are so bad and the volume is just too much.

[–] mightyfoolish@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

The only two communities I blocked were just a barrage of memes straight to the frontpage.