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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[–] Smoogs@lemmy.world 9 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Lemmy is also not overrun by AI bots and sock puppets.

[–] Civil_Liberty@lemm.ee 1 points 13 minutes ago
[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 4 points 48 minutes ago (1 children)
[–] WeirdGoesPro@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 43 minutes ago* (last edited 42 minutes ago)

Hi Mr. Shankles, nice to see you again. /s

[–] angrystego@lemmy.world 10 points 2 hours ago

Username checks out

[–] Empricorn@feddit.nl 3 points 1 hour ago

Oh, you pickled moon dumpling.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 4 hours ago

The place is a Village rather than a City.

[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 8 points 4 hours ago (6 children)

your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 35 minutes ago

Btw, your PMs being available to admins is the same on like every socmed. If you have to use lemmy as your secure method of communication (you shouldn't), at least use PGP, but lemmy isn't meant for that, use XMPP or Matrix or even Signal I guess.

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 7 points 1 hour ago

So can you on reddit.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 hour ago

People DM each other on Lemmy?

[–] rowdyrockets@lemm.ee 1 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 59 minutes ago)

Your privacy is the same on either. But now, anyone can gain that information, not just Reddit’s investors and partners.

It’s what you write on these platforms that affects your privacy.

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 children)

So, is it better to host your own instance?

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 hour ago

Doesn't change the voting situation. Since your votes need to be seen by other instances, Lemmy needs a mechanism for federating votes. Since instances are untrusted, there needs to be some way of preventing manipulation. Thus, AFAIK, Lemmy simply shares your votes across instances, letting each one tally them up. As a side effect, any server admin of an instance you can interact with can also get a list of all your votes.

[–] admin@lemmy.today 1 points 3 hours ago

Man So much this.

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

It's the same with every small forum tbh

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 11 points 4 hours ago (3 children)
[–] Huschke@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

Praise ~~Kier~~ Klear!

[–] Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 3 hours ago
[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 8 points 5 hours ago

It's also not only about upvotes here.

[–] Little8Lost@lemmy.world 19 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

I think should touch some grass because i may recognise more people here than in the village i am living in for like 2 jears

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[–] optimistic@lemm.ee 2 points 4 hours ago
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