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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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I realize it won't be like this forever, but while scrolling Lemmy I eventually come to a point when I start to see a lot of old posts and it's a perfect signal that I've done more than enough scrolling for the day

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[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm confused, is it not on everyone's settings for their default Lemmy profile?

"Show Read Posts" is a checkmark you can unclick if you want to hide them...

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Correct. But the additional feature is available on some clients. The additional feature is to mark posts as read when you merely scroll past them. That way I don't have to keep scrolling past the same post every time I check Lemmy. I mean, I still scroll past the same link multiple times when different people have posted it to different instances, but I never see the exact same post twice.

Boost setting to Mark posts as read when scrolled past

Lemmy setting to hide read posts

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh interesting, only use desktop so I'm not on mobile so probably missing out on some cool features being developed by others.

Do you feel the apps do a better job of representing a post on the main scroll feed nowadays? I always felt like it lacked context when you were just reading a small excerpt, but I can see something like that easily approved upon and updated.

I do feel the same as the OP poster though, I honestly can't even get past the first page if I actually click and read the comments and look into the information being presented. One post can completely sidetrack me for a day if people start making claims that are untrue and it's a whole rabbit hole to get to the bottom of it.

[–] bobagem@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

In Boost, I'm happy with Card View that shows pretty big thumbnail and a healthy extract.

Two posts in extended screenshot

[–] Cataphract@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 week ago

yeah that's way better, thank you for the edit/image upload (glad I don't click marked read as often as I should lol). That's definitely a healthy extract lol. I'll make sure to suggest boost in the future if someone's looking for a mobile version.

[–] Paper_Phrog@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Holy shit, at first I thought they were pokemon cards of billionaires like Bezos, Musk etc.

BRB coffee time.