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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: 1

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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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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Damn, missed my chance to have it be a date I'd remember for a change.

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[–] sota2077@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am genuinely excited to see how many people stick around post June 30th. If this place stays as vibrant as it has then this is my new home for sure.

[–] simo@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (6 children)

When all this API shit started kicking off I didn't really like the look of lemmy, but now it looks like the best. KBin was fun for a bit but felt kind of chaotic, plus not having posts vanish after upvoting/viewing the comments was a death sentene for me. The other alternatives are just shit IMO.

Plus looks like a lot of app devs are lemmyheads, Memmy has been great after installing it today. There's no way i'm using the reddit app post June so yea...Lemmy all the way, cause everything else blows for content consumption.

[–] sputtersalt@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

You can try Liftoff! as well !liftoff@lemmy.world. I've been enjoying it :)

[–] sota2077@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Same. I have Kbin, Tildes, Lemmy and a few others just to poke around, but I find I spend the most time here. I even went and found a script that makes Lemmy look a bit like Reddit and I am perfectly happy.

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[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My Reddit Cakeday used to be nothing special. It's June 30th. There's a certain irony behind all this somewhere.

[–] Coskii@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 2 years ago

I know mine is somewhere in June or July, so it's really more of the same. You would think I'd learn in 13 years which day it is, but much like my actual birthday, it's just another day.

[–] thegiddystitcher@lemm.ee 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Kinda gutted to have lost my June 4th cakeday due to fleeing from Beehaw. Getting in before July 1st still makes me cool though, right? Right?! 😭

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We will probably give ourselves some grandiose name like "Founders" All the original lemmy people pre-june2023 gonna get called "early Adopters" like lemmy didn't exist for like 3 or more years and they built it.

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[–] MrJukes@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's gonna be a big ol' lemmy party around here next summer

[–] Hikermick@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

It's the new boomer generation

[–] eating3645@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

We should throw a group party in a year!

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Mine is June 1st, the first day we heard about the API bullshit. But then Beehaw defederated LW so I had to open an account on LW to follow a couple of communities

[–] CosmicCat@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I had the same thought this morning! I also wonder if there's a similar phenomenon with older redditors that came from digg. When was that?

[–] Klear@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

According to other comments 12 years ago and yes - it was exactly the same.

At least that's what they say. I missed the digg era, joined reddit 9 years ago.

[–] devopspalmer@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I think I lasted 2 days and stumbled on sub.rehab, thus my Fediverse adventure began

[–] Sneckster@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Reminds me of all the cake days a year after the digg exodus.

[–] wheresyourshoe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I actually might remember mine, because o joined here on the first day of the blackout. June 12th. Quit Reddit after 16 years on the 11th, so it's kinda memorable for me. And the 12th of a different month is my birthday, so that helps.

[–] jerome@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago

as is tradition.

[–] CreeperODeath@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hey does anybody know if this community is ran by the same people who ran the subreddit

I think that would be epic if so or is this just a clone

[–] OmniGlitcher@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

It's not. This community so far has a single mod, @vatlark.

To quote him from here:

I created this community because it was my favorite on Reddit and I couldn’t find one on Lemmy.

He is apparently holding a vote for new mods.

[–] whome@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I hat december the 31st for Eleven years on reddit. Always tried to remember why I created an account on new years eve...

[–] MissJinx@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

mine was may 4th... you guess why lol

[–] RGB3x3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Lonely new years eve, probably found some porn you wanted to save...

[–] mirror_slap@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago
[–] solidsnake2085@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

My reddit cake day is on April 10th, my birthday. The reason I made an account was because my favorite band was doing an AMA that day.

[–] Zagorath@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

Winter down here in Aus. 15th June for me.

[–] Pixlbabble@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

We all had babies on R-Day.

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