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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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[–] MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

IRL, I have to explain that I saw a post on "weird open source reddit alternative". While here, everyone is (mostly) on the same wave length.

We are not alone

[–] halfdane@piefed.social 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Interesting, I attributed it to the data not being completely up-to-date before. And my upvote made the server do some syncing, so more current information is available

[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 day ago

pretty sure it makes your client do the syncing.

But yes, your client syncs whenever you load the current/next page, so by the time you're at the bottom there will be a lot of people that have upvoted before you even saw the post.

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

As in a validation of your opinion?

[–] RotatingParts@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Not really. My opinion may be wrong, but at least I'm not alone with it.

[–] PierceTheBubble@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 day ago

What you're describing is what I meant to communicate; but may not have used the correct word for it.