Who needs anonymity? I put my real name, address, social security number, and agenda in my profile. Ha ha. you see no agenda because im just a typical earth man with no agenda of course. lol.
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
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.
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Os it? I don't remeber a single user lol
What!? I take that personally. I'm, like, super memorable!
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Some people actually use the tag feature so that they remember users when they see them again lol
Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.
I also like that Lemmy has a displayname field separate from the username and it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text. 😏
That's how I can always spot you in the threads lol You probably never even noticed me though. I'm trying to be inconspicuous over here
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Certain subreddits used to be like this.
But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:
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Get algorithmically deprioritized (due to a “bug” as an admin told a mod), and hemorrhage users. The collective ‘intelligence’ of the sub in particular drains; interesting intellectual discussions are gone. One such example: /r/localllama
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The sub gets huge. Bots repost memes and bait as attention farms. It doesn’t feel like a small town anymore. Deeper discussions drain away in favor of shallow repetition of the same things over and over again. One example of this for me is /r/thelastairbender.
I see all of the same names in like every thread here haha. I remember y'all too. I know you are all freaks
That’s why I keep making new accounts every time the last one hits around 1,000 comments. I already recognize quite a few users here who’ve only written around 3,000 comments total - so by that metric, if I’d just kept using my first account, I’d probably be instantly recognizable to a ton of people by now.
I love being able to have the small-forum feeling of my home instance but also feeling connected to communities elsewhere.
Also because it allows anyone to easily stalk all your comments for some reason. Creepy.
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Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog
I don't know a lot of people in my small town and I don't know you!
Who are you and how did you get in my sandbox?
Ita kinda neat imo. It's like being in a small town and seeing a celebrity whenever satansmaggotycumfart joins the conversation.
Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling
I don't know anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?