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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:

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.

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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] AbidingOhmsLaw@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Or, just make it fun friendly competition and start a quiz show like tournament of teams from each instance, no need for war.

[–] Rengoku@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Mastodon is on a decline already. It is different than, say, Lemmy. Mastodon's contents are produced mainly by mainstream content creators, and they do not migrate from Twitter its counterpart.

[–] sagrotan@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Already in it. Where've YOU been? I'm in the trenches here for lemmy.one

[–] Gunbudder@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Can we just go back to BBS where you have dial in with your land line to post on a board? The difficulty of use acted like an awesome protection from any community growing too large too fast and was super easy to moderate. I just want to pull my socks up to my knees, yell at the clouds, and dial in to the NG BBS...

[–] TinfoilBeanieTech@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

"...eventually..."

It's already starting.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Pretty grandiose to refer to discussions with a bit of trolling as a war.

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

Or, more likely, trolling with a bit of discussion.

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

You want a war, bruh? I'll fite you right now!!

[–] SINapps@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

He's got an instance with a nail in it...

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

Reminds me of the good ol IRC days.

[–] gvasco@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago

IRC was fun, then people chose corporate poisoned simplicity (AOL, MSN) and that spelt the doom for protocols, until now.

[–] besenwesen@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Were there mailserver wars?

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[–] match@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Technically Truth and Gab are activitypub compatible right? We can already fight with them

[–] Anomalous_Llama@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I remember the war between /r/me_irl and /r/meirl back in the day on Reddit

Me_irl gang for life personally 😤

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