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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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I feel like the people I interact with irl don't even know how to boot from a USB. People here probably know how to do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line. Stg I would bet money on the average person not even being able to create a Lemmy account without assistance.

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[–] CaptainHowdy@lemmy.zip 18 points 2 days ago (3 children)

I just don't understand how it's more "techy" than Reddit. I just want our user count to keep going up.

I think we should focus less on hyping federation/decentralization and more on how there are no ads and the content is really coming from actual users (and maybe a leftist bias).

I got a few friends on here by explaining that choosing a server is no different from choosing an email provider. Everyone understands email, that you can communicate with most other email users no matter what their provider is.

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

You know I don't think the whole "everyone understands email" is the gotcha that most people think it is. I honestly don't think everyone understands email, much less the underlying structure that can be compared to Lemmy.

[–] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Email is that thing where I send birthday postcards off yahoo from right?

[–] Fleur_@aussie.zone 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

E-mails are femboys who use their charms to get twitch stream donations actually. You might be thinking of Gmail?

Now I'm confused. So E-mails are guys that go full send, like e girls?

[–] seralth@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

Almost no one understands email I would be surprised if the number is higher then 7 or 8 percent of users that use email understand what it even is beyond the basic statement of "it's like a letter".

People barely understand how mail works in the first place.

[–] Auli@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 days ago

It's federated. Have to choose your instance and create an account. Then not to mention what happens if your instance shuts down.

[–] WaffleWarrior@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 day ago

The Leftist bias is a selling point? That's literally all social media except Twitter