Imagine if some random medium sized sports forum decided to move/switch to Lemmy? Would be cool I guess.
this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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
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- 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
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Go Bills, fellow Reddit expat and I definitely miss just getting news posted about the team and Lemmy is nowhere near that level of activity. I’ve ended up just going back to old.Reddit and browsing new here and there - no commenting, not logged in, so it’s not nearly as time consuming as it used to be. Hopefully someday people will use Lemmy for stuff like this!
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As a Canadian, it's the one place I can go to Canadian communities and not be completely buried by fucking hockey. Even this whole elbows up thing is fucking terrible. I get why. I understand that people have been indoctrinated to this and it's part of their identity here. I don't understand why it has to be absolutley everywhere though.
Yup I really want a nba sub please someone put in the work I'll like every post lol
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The shit in these comments is why Lemmy is doomed to be a minor platform that will inevitably fizzle out.
Seriously people, there are other interests besides Linux and politics. If we bully out other interests from starting communities on Lemmy it'll never grow out of obscurity... some may like that but I'd personally like to see it grow into something that can actually compete with Reddit.
I say this as someone who doesn't like sports at all, but we have these magical things called filters for people like me!
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Lemmy has sports communities? ;)
As a Sabres fan, I don't have much to say lol
There is only one thing to say: 
We’re here there’s just not a lot of us yet
The small scale of Lemmy's active user base is never more evident than in the absence of active members in all the communities
very important to me.
I have communities that I care about that aren't on here too. It's their loss if they don't join the fediverse. If it takes them another few years of eating billionaires dicks to get tired of dickbreath, that's on them.