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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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And on Lemmy the 'those in power' that can and will censor you are the mods/admins of whatever community/instance you're on that don't like your politics.
and no ones denying the existance of such... Fact is at the end of the day no one actually winds up liking uncensored platforms. First and foremost is obviously spam, advertisements etc.. But assuming just spam is blocked, a zero censorship platforms first wave will be people who's views constantly get them kicked off other platforms. It's not really possible to a have a platform welcoming to literal self identified nazi's, that doesn't quickly become exclusively nazi's.
So yeah lemmy the thing I like about it overall is I think we are all in agreement, the initial showerthought is right.. we generally are only OK with censorship that meets our own views of what should be censored, and lemmy offers the ability for people who disagree, to make their own instance. So you can have anything from tanky friendly to nazi friendly instances.
I'd rather censorship was entirely client side, but I haven't seen any social media that does that.
That is not censorship.
As someone else pointed out, if I kick you out of my house because I don't like the shit you say that's not censorship or deportation - it's merely me exerting my authority over a space I own.