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this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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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.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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.
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But then how do I jump on the Upvote/Downvote Bandwagon?
It's funny because people who think they're above the whole bandwagon thing still don't realize how just seeing the numbers causes a response in them. This site is 1,000x less interesting in a social aspect when you can't see that engagement, you'll find yourself logging in less and less till you just don't see a point in it.
It’s like a better version of Reddit in 2025, but what I really want is Ye Olde Reddit of 2010. I keep seeing comments about how Reddit turned to shit with the API changes, but IMO it’s been garbage for more than a decade. I haven’t been on Lemmy for long but so far I’ve mostly seen the same posts as on Reddit with mostly the same types of comment, just at smaller scale.
When I joined Reddit around the same time, people who had been on Reddit since it actually started were also complaining it was shit. 🤣
Yeah it’s the classic problem… quality goes down as population goes up. Never mind whatever dumb shit the company does.
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I realize it won’t be like this forever
You can always keep moving to smaller instances.
This is a great point. I have another account on a smaller instance, and there I frequently just read everything in the local feed.
It also reminds me to post something back somewhere.
I actually have way too much to go through if I'm being honest. Last year, it had a good number of posts to go through and stop, now, I have way too many to cover.
Enjoy it while you can
The beauty of it is that we can enjoy it forever. If one instance gets too noisy, we can block it.
I know what you mean. It's good but not TOO good. Proper proportions of honey and shit.
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Same, I much prefer paged scrolling as well, its easier to control or measure how much you scroll.
You don't have enough subs. Slacker.
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After thinking about that it would be cool if that became feature somehow.
Limiting how many posts you can see per community on Lemmy
Being able to switch between seeing all post, a few, or none to help with curbing online addiction
it is nice having Enough content
Same.
LOve that endless scrolling is an option and not a forced setting.