To be fair the majority of posts I see have barely any comments at all. Not sure if that is so much better.
this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
242 points (91.2% liked)
Showerthoughts
33333 readers
360 users here now
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.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
when it has comments, it rarely have replies
edit: i guess the /s was needed
Be patient my friend, the engagements will come. Although the instances having issues doesn't really make people want to browse lemmy. I practically never browsed past the first page of the feed before Sync for Lemmy got released.
It is so much better now then it was a month ago so imo we are now a floating boat rather than a sinking one that we are using buckets to keep floating
Here's one
It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.
Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.
☝️ This
Don't kill me 😆
I love how the emoji is also italic
Ok hang on this is nuts.
How about bold? 🥵🤑😈
How about heading?
😏🤣👽
Strikethrough? ~~😱🤮🤔~~
🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though
Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing
Because in unicode strikethrough is achieved by superimposing the strikethrough character on another character. So any regular character, emojis included, can be striked through.
𝕏̶
To specifically say I was going to smile, but I choose to not.
load more comments
(3 replies)
load more comments
(1 replies)
Oh god I forgot about those lame “witty” responses, all so original hahaha.
play stupid games
Listen here you little shit
Sir, this is a Wendy's
That italic emoji makes me uncomfortable.
It's because the majority isn't here yet.
The Eternal September waits for every platform
It’s nice to be here during what will eventually become “the good old days”, rather than finding out about it after it starts to suck.
But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: [email protected] and [email protected], each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.
I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.
load more comments
(2 replies)
Tbh, I kinda miss these links. Lemmy has a big discoverability issue, and part of that is that it's impossible to link to a post or comment in an instance-agnostic way.
Links to communities would at least help to find new communities to join.
Yeah, there's the "everything" feed, but it's just not the same as /r/all.
I like to browse "everything " sorted to new. I find new communities that way. And there isn't an underlying algorithm that curated your feed according to what your viewing history is.
That's why it's different from r/all, there is less manipulation.
It's nice to be able to post wherever I want without having my accounts being happening to be x days old or x amount of karma.
Im wondering how long that will last. Surely, at some point, there will be anti spam measures to help combat that.
When Eternal September begins and all the frat boys no longer getting free booze at Reddit stagger down cyber lane looking for another party to crash and see the light is still on at Lemmy's.
Give it a moment
Thanks for the gold kind stranger!?
Take my angry upvote?
no
Seems an unpopular opinion here, but I honestly miss this. The whole "using subreddits as hashtags" thing is how I found a number of interesting subs I would have never otherwise even thought to search for. Yeah, some were very big and well known ones like /holup that got repetitive, but others were some niche thing that fit that specific post in a way that I at least found somewhat funny.
I hope it doesn't peter out like Goat did. I deleted all my 100k plus reddit accounts yesterday. I have so much muscle memory from going to reddit daily that I have to force myself not to go.
The first week is the hardest. It gets better the longer you are able to be intentional about your choices.
welcome to the club, and its great to have you.
As an alternative we have the same memes you know for years in everyones feed here but I actually kind of love that because it's only the best of them!
It reminds me of the time I first started taking antidepressants and they started kicking in. "Holy shit, is this how everyone else feels all the time? This is amazing!" Mine is cripplingly bad and I've had it my entire life. Being a suicidal 7 year old is apparently not normal.
Thanks for the compliment kind stranger!
I wish I could giv u gold!!!!!
Lemmy Silver is the best I can do.
yeah a lot of the meaningless chatter just isnt established here.
i kinda think that not having a summarized carma score prevents a lot of it.
but i also feel, that this kind of suff is slowly creeping in with the migration of more users.
load more comments
(1 replies)
There really isn't a critical mass of users here to do that in order to be worthwhile.
view more: next ›