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.
If only.
No, Amazon is very slick about this. They distract from the real problem and instead turn it into a conversation about having sufficient Amazon services to ensure the site stays up. It used to be that they'd just talk to people who didn't know better, and the tech teams would be told how to do their jobs by marketing doofs. Now, companies have "cloud architects" who's jobs depend on the IT stack being so complex their jobs are secure, and AWS doesn't have to bypass the dev/ops teams.
Or you just block them.
I will note that in my experience the bot army from META is by far the most aggressive and destructive. At one point, traffic from their systems was tenfold all the others combined.
Why spend hundreds of man hours on optimisation of your website when for as little as $4/h you can get an additional VMs in the cloud to scale horizontally.