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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[–] brucethemoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Certain subreddits used to be like this.

But all my favorites have taken one of two paths:

  • 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

  • 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.

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago (11 children)

Os it? I don't remeber a single user lol

[–] Monstrosity@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago

What!? I take that personally. I'm, like, super memorable!

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[–] Hadriscus@lemm.ee 7 points 1 day ago

Oh, you sfoogly cucklebog

[–] dxc@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago

Jokes on you. Post less, remember less.

[–] LanguageIsCool@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

Oh, you MSG’d bouillon hatchling

[–] LandedGentry@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 day ago
[–] Opinionhaver@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago

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.

[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

My, oh societal anachronism.

Aren't you the one who knows cool animal facts?

[–] CCMan1701A@startrek.website 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Remember the user that couldn't 💩 for a week or something?

Maybe the bathrooms were disgusting or something. I mean, I hate using public bathrooms.

Well looks like they deleted their account. 🤷‍♂️

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I want to be remembered as the succulent meal that sometimes makes good points and funny jokes 🍗🍚

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I don't know anybody here. What you talkin about Wilus?

[–] einfach_orangensaft@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i have the theorie that there are even way fewer users here than people think, at least when it comes to posts not commens...there is a cluster of accounts that kinda feel like they are all run by the same person.

Feel free to guess what cluster i mean

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Every account here is my sockpuppet account except you.

There are only 2 users here, its just you and me, everyone else are my alts. How did you not realize this?

/jk

i have been suspecting this, so thx i guess for playing social media with me

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

And there is always the village idiot.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago

We are the "I know a spot" guys

[–] OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (2 children)

How, this account is so fresh.

I guess I already commented too much 🤷‍♂️

(I have no life, send help)

Need some grass-touching

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[–] funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago

who do you think you are I am

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I get a weird thing where a VPN connection sometimes doesn't let me post or respond.

[–] throwawayacc0430@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Ah, its lemmy.world being a dick.

Hop over to like... just about any other instance

[–] SendMePhotos@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I'm going to be honest, I hopped over during the r-api thing and I haven't really explored much, just use the sync app. I can view other instances but I guess I'll have to figure out how to add them to the default

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