this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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:

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. 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.

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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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[–] PillowTalk420@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago

I know I am normally recognizable, but currently if someone doesn't have display names or avatars visible they probably won't know who I am on this account since it's my old username, from Reddit.

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (3 children)

I get around that problem by simply never looking at your usernames

[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] WereCat@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)
[–] milicent_bystandr@lemm.ee 3 points 6 days ago

Your username would make a good meme.

"Were cat

Now am what?"

[–] MyNameIsAtticus@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just suck at remembering names. I've started remembering people by their Profile picture more than their username

[–] FreakinSteve@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

Its too bad you cant sniff butts on the internet like in real life

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

same and i block the ml and the holier than thou accounts.

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago (2 children)

I honestly have no clue why are some instances so hated here, but I'm going to assume it's politics.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

You are on an instance that has defederated lemmy.ml, which is why you never see their toxicity. You can type the url and visit the instance yourself, its toxic. Its the reason why your instance admin blocked them.

[–] Ledericas@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

politics is as toxic as its on reddit unfortunately, the people who were banned there came here made thier own "instance" and just became the same mods.

[–] ProfHillbilly@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I just wish the people in the subs I mod and post in would post some too. I feel like I am just posting for myself in those subs. Hell I am not a mod in c/trailrunning and it has like 170 members and no one post. I was the last person that posted. I know people are looking because someone is upvoting the things I post but no replies, no conversation. I don't know what to do to drive engagement.

I didn't know that community existed! Not sure what to post there yet but I'll join

[–] Iceman@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

At least we can all say that we are famous on the internet.

[–] bigredcar@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Even on big websites like Wikipedia there are only a few hundred major editors that write most of the content and they all know each other. On Youtube you tend to get to know everyone in your filter bubble as well.

[–] possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip 1 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Reddit has a dedicated Tor site

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

~~Holy shit, I actually managed to make an anonymous account over Tor. Now lets see how long before I get banned/shadowbanned. Didn't even think this was possible.~~

Edit: Doesn't work, shadowbanned. Fuck Reddit

@possiblylinux127@lemmy.zip my reddit account was shadowbanned. The tor link doesn't do shit if the corporate overlords want to know your identity so they can send the US ICE-gestapo after you for wrong-think.

Fuck Reddit. Long live the fediverse.

Viva la Lemmy!

Update: Reddit is ass

Fuck corporate.

GO FEDIVERSE FOREVER 🏆

[–] muusemuuse@lemm.ee 2 points 6 days ago

Meh, wake me when it has an i2p presence

[–] REDACTED@infosec.pub 1 points 6 days ago

Wait, reddit doesn't allow tor anymore? I remember posting a drug-related TIFU using tor and a throwaway acc, but that was years ago

[–] Regna@lemmy.world 107 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Oh, you sweet summer child.

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