Well. I joined shower thoughts to read some funny short random thoughts. Not absolute garbage takes 50 posts a day.
this post was submitted on 15 Feb 2026
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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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So get a decent block list....
Idk, I think you might just be posting in the wrong community. Have you tried !badposting@hexbear.net ?
I've tried so many comms by now that I've lost interest. From now on, I'm just not going to post anything anymore. I've said this to myself many times before for the very same reason, but the downvotes on this post confirm it unequivocally. I obviously have no business being here.
Feel free to take a look at my profile to decide whether I really am such an unpleasant person that I shouldn't be allowed to express my views in any community with some viewability.
This struggle is simply not worth it to me. I've also cancel my financial support - I'm sure you'll manage well without me.
Unfortunately for everyone who thinks like this, everything is political. Media, food, art and design, technology - it's all done by people who are citizens (polites) of some state or another (polity) and everything they have access to is driven more by politics than nearly any other factor at this point. Even the desire to be free from politics is a political position.
Here's an example: I posted on /c/unpopularopinion that it can't be right that even a well-known actor like James Van Der Beek is becoming impoverished because he can't afford the cost of his cancer treatment. I posted there because I know from experience that this would not be allowed in other communities because it is supposedly a political post - even at unpopularopinion, the post was removed by the moderators.
Therefore, I believe that this arbitrary rule is completely absurd.
Fascism and capitalism are eating the globe. It will leak everywhere as it should. No one should be quiet.
I agree. Nevertheless, people here prefer arbitrary decisions based on rules that are so broad that they only encourage arbitrary decisions by the moderators. From this, I can only conclude that even the people here would rather be entertained than face the adversities of reality.
For me, that is unacceptable - so I'm moving on.
Its the spaces you're in. Everyone knows Cowbee will talk to you about theory all day and night. Good luck in your next life.
- Not every
<input type="text">is suitable for political opinions. - Political opinions are like assholes: we all have them, they all stink, we all think our own doesn't stink, and the world is a better place when everyone doesn't have them on constant display.
- People who inject politics into everything are generally insufferable and there's a reason major communities have rules prohibiting politics.
And so I'm supposed to leave it up to some random person to decide whether to allow me to speak?
If people would use (and admins allow, and devs implement on mobile clients) the language tags we already have I would be happy already.
There are tags on Piefed it seems. But it's always been a mess, and ends up with people putting a lot of tags on their own posts to spam. Moderation is good enough on Lemmy. I don't think you need to complicate things further.
How absurd is it that /c/unpopularopinion has "no politics" as its first community rule - as do most of the Lemmy communities with the widest reach? This achieves nothing but opening the floodgates to arbitrary censorship. And why is that? For the simple reason that people would rather be entertained...
Some people don't want to be bother by politics and/or US-centered stories. On every forum it was allowed, users were flooded with those topics. You can see !politicaldiscussion@lemmy.world if you want that (it's in the side bar).
You can already hide such posts without any problem by excluding the relevant terms. As this post here suggests, it should also not be too difficult technically to let users decide which content they want to hide using tags.
However, hiding posts in the most popular communities for everyone by moderators is nothing less than plain censorship - and you even like that, because you can't be bothered with reality...
by excluding the relevant terms
Terms like US, politics, Trump, Clinton, Army, Militia, Vance, Bondi, Kinder eggs, Oklahoma, etc. It seems painful. As I said, tags are a PITA and create spam.
you even like that, because you can’t be bothered with reality
Go back to reddit please.
Go back to reddit please.
I've been here for more than two and a half years, trying to contribute something because I thought it was important. I'm starting to think more and more that it was a wasted effort. Thank you for pointing that out so clearly once again.