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:
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.
I'm sorry. Being enslaved, jailed, or executed for no reason is NOTHING like getting your comment deleted without a detailed explanation.
If you're feeling oppressed by other people not reading whatever thoughts pop in your head, it might be time to go touch grass, or snow, depending on what's available in your area right now.
Actually, censorship is the #1 form of prosecution for scary governments.
In what court are you being prosecuted? State, federal? What laws are you accused of breaking?
OP is confusing "prosecution" with "persecution", thus making this whole thread impenetrable
They know, they are just giving him a hard time lol
Such petty sniveling mindgames are the bedrock upon which our magnificent culture is founded.
Yes, there's supposed to be a higher legal standard for the state sending you to prison than a private party banning you from their forum.
There is also common decency to consider.
If you took your own advice, you wouldn’t have so many comments of yours deleted.
So you’re butthurt that your eugenics threads got deleted? This smells like troll
Your username makes a lot of sense after reading such opinion, I'm going to be honest.
Do you sincerely think those 2 things are even remotely comparable?
It isn't an evil practice because evil people practice it. It's just an evil practice.
Can we agree on that?
Can we agree on that?
Absolutely fucking not.
Social media companies do not prosecute you in any shape or form. At most the can ban you from using their platforms. That's it.
Being prosecuted by the government of a country (especially a totalitarian one) is an entirely different matter.
And bless your heart for living such a privileged life that you think those 2 things are even on the same level to begin with
No
You're talking about Banning or Canceling?. Either way, is wild to compare prosecution with any of those things.
What exactly do you mean by "prosecution" in the context of social media?
Penalizing a transgressor.
(The penalty being removing a reply or post. Or ban)
(The transgression being contradicting a rule, the spirit of the community or the will of the moderator)
They mean "persecution"
Ok maybe I did the wrong word. You get my point tho.
Ignoring your mixup of persecution and prosecution, it's wild that you're even remotely putting mass execution and imprisonment on the same level as having your singular thread removed from a privately hosted forum that you voluntarily joined.
Censorship by privately run and hosted forums is not remotely equivalent to the horrors of totalitarian and fascist governments. Even if people were to agree that it's evil (which it's not, paradox of tolerance), the comparison is beyond the pale.
This is one of the most chronically online takes I've ever heard.
People don't understand that a lot of interactions are driven by corpos paying PR shops to drive desired narratives.
The "modding" everyone complains about is censorship to suppress unfavourable facts. The mods ain't power tripping, their doing their jobs as expected by the handlers.
So it's just efficient? Ok.
Explaining your actions may be the right (prosocial?) thing to do but right is not the point. Control is the point.
And 99% of the people here never say anything deviant enough to get censored over anyway. So what's a few edge cases.
That's kinda cynical, which I can appreciate.
It definitely shows that the power structures have their hands in any relevant social media discussion. I would posit that mods pay critical role with that system.
Most recent example is modding we get on main subs re Luigi... Some how censorship on fedi was stronger than reddit, at least week post the denial of life.
The pattern of behaviour is is the same. Tjere is a topic, it need to be discussed a certain way, people generally small minorities will say wrong thing, they get removed. Narrative holds up.
With Luigi public sentiment was so strong that they could not suppress the genuine public opinion hence why reddit didn't even try for the first week.
Here we had mods argue all sorts of weird shit and none of it really landed. The rules are vague enough to remove any wrong think they need.
Mod logs will show a pattern of behaviour.
Israeli genocide in Gaza is another topic where mods shill regime narratives.
But theh don't do over everything, you can do culture war circle jerk all you want.
Also, mods are no uniform bit mods for each sub have their specific narrative and they will never accept discussions that would undermine it.
You can criticize Israel but only in sanctioned way.
Another example is kamala prez campaign... No discussion, either you shill her or you are removed.
And fedi ain't even a speck on social media land scape but we sure got a full blown gestapo field office to heard 50k monthly users lol
So decency is out the window. We are just participants in our own mindfuckery.
I guess we need to find the "most free" Lemmy instance. Are there reviews?
Good discussions happen in the meme subs which is kinda ironic.
But anything of high traffic will attract bad faith actors for "modding"
Fedi itself is pretty resilient since it is decentralized, so at worst it is a sub ban or instance ban on ml for disrespectimg she-pooh
Also there other reasons why mods could make their discussions clearly but there is definitely pattern of behavior.
Good discussions happen in the meme subs which is kinda ironic.
I've noticed that too. It's like a forest fire (high popularity, enshittification?) went through there and now healthy stuff grows. Probably a cyclic thing.
What we need is truly niche subs. Which by definition must be hard to access.