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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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Yes, I know, trolls etc. But such action turns any conversation into a bad joke. And anybody who trusts a moderator is a fool.

Find a better way.

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[–] cattywampas@lemm.ee 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The better way is one where control resides solely with the user.

[–] db2@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

That's embarrassingly ignorant.

[–] superkret@feddit.org 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The instance admin is legally responsible for everything posted on their instance.
Giving all the control to the users would literally carry the risk of going to prison.

[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

That doesn't make having a moderator any less bad

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

As a user, you can:

  • Review instance and community rules prior to participating
  • Review the moderator logs to confirm that moderation activities have been in line with the rules
  • If you notice a discrepancy, e.g., over-moderation, you can hold the mods accountable and draw attention to it or simply choose not to engage in that instance or community
  • Host your own instance
  • Create communities in an existing instance or your own instance

If you host your own instance and communities within that instance, then at that point, you have full control, right? Other instances can de-federate from yours.

[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I am aware of that. But still, giving somebody the power to arbitrarily censor and modify our conversation is a fundamentally bad thing.

[–] hedgehog@ttrpg.network 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Then why are you doing that, and why aren’t you at least hosting your own instance?

[–] rainrain@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 months ago

It's a discussion of principle.

This is a foreign concept?