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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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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago (3 children)

I get around that problem by simply never looking at your usernames

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 2 points 18 hours ago

Your username would make a good meme.

"Were cat

Now am what?"

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

I just suck at remembering names. I've started remembering people by their Profile picture more than their username

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

same and i block the ml and the holier than thou accounts.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I honestly have no clue why are some instances so hated here, but I'm going to assume it's politics.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 8 hours ago

politics is as toxic as its on reddit unfortunately, the people who were banned there came here made thier own "instance" and just became the same mods.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

You are on an instance that has defederated lemmy.ml, which is why you never see their toxicity. You can type the url and visit the instance yourself, its toxic. Its the reason why your instance admin blocked them.