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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:

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 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
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (7 children)

What are "SEO spam tactics"? I would google, but am afraid of that now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Tactics to get more visible to the search engines. Optimizing the website to the search engines.

It's something we all must do to make a nice, visited websites. It's also something that spammers got so good that literally everything you search is basically ¾ ads at this point.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think I just figured it out, Search Engine Optimization?

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago

Nah.

What the average user is looking for is almost certainly gonna be near the top of a Google search.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Wasn't seo revamped like decades ago because it was prone to spam? And now is best bid get to be in the first pages/results?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

There’s actually a lot of theory and early work out there on the topic of federated search. While existing search aggregators like Searx and YaCY certainly qualify as federated, search infrastructure built from the ground up with decentralization in mind would look very different. All that to say this isn't necessarily the end of the line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

If they haven't gotten into this habit in the last 20 years anyways, I don't think the SEO spam was that last straw. That ship has sailed.

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