this post was submitted on 30 Jun 2023
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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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[–] mizu6079@lemmy.world 29 points 2 years ago (1 children)
  1. A lot of lurkers from Reddit, myself included, actually don't lurk on Lemmy.

  2. Lemmy will only improve if the lurkers stopped lurking.

[–] buycurious@lemmy.world 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)

The lurking will continue until content improves

[–] Nova_Sempa@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

But how will the content improve when the lurking continues?

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

Because the content will just devolve to shitposting, as god intended.

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

Ok fine i’ll stop lurking

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

We be mirelurking

[–] tmsqhazdzp@lemmy.world 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I’ve actually felt like contributing here. It’s been 11 years on reddit for me and I made 5 posts and a handful of comments in that time.

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

I commented on reddit a lot but I do feel the need to be more involved here because I want to help build up the community. That said, I do want to be more careful about how I use my account. Avoid getting into discourse when I can, try not to argue with people as much.

I feel like I can be healthier on Lemmy if I go into it with a different mindset, and without Reddit's dogshit algorithm, it might make it easier.

[–] Diurnambule@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Same, created a account never posted on reddit. Here it fell more meaning full.

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

Yeah even though I'm still just as uncomfortable making posts and will only do it if really needed, I have felt much more able to comment on Lemmy.

Hopefully my confidence will continue to improve with time

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

I made 2 posts on Reddit, one was a meme about my friend jumping over me to see my username, the other was some random text post. Thousands of comments though

It's just not in my nature... So much so that I'm trying to release a Lemmy app tonight, and I just remembered I haven't started on the ability to post...

Everything else came easy to me - you should be able to click on anything, everything should stay where you left it... But I have no idea how people want to post. I should probably just do it now before I overthink it

[–] Bongles@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago

I used that powerdelete script last night and turns out I made one singular post on reddit in 9 years of use, when DDLC recently released: Meme

[–] 0uterzenith@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago

uh, no. If we're all lurkers then there'll be no content here

[–] Monomate@lemm.ee 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I'm more motivated to participate when there's fewer comments. On Reddit I often refrained from commenting when I noticed the other commenters already covered the point I wanted to make.

[–] Ignacio@sopuli.xyz 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Don't forget karma whoring, where your comments will be invisible to the algorithm and you seem to talk to an empty wall, while one liners and easy jokes are at the top.

[–] devious@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

Uhhhh, sorry!

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

Or someone with the same opinion as yours will start argue with you because you said it in a different way that they don't agree with.

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

They wouldn't "argue" they would correct you.

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[–] bstix 1 points 2 years ago

Yes those are the worst. Some people think that a normal conversation should be an exchange of contradictions, even when agreeing. I know exactly 1 person like that in real life who hasn't matured beyond that, but with the size of Reddit, there'd always be one.

I also got a funny reply one time from someone who claimed to have just thought something unique, after which he literally just rewrote my exact post. Basically doing "I made this" while trying to argue about it. After all I'm glad I managed to make him understand something, but he must be an insufferable genius to be around.

Eventually there will be crazy people here too, but so far it seems a lot less pretentious than the Reddit hivemind.

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

Came here to say this.

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

Yeah, the size can be pretty overwhelming

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

Same here. Even subs (instances? communities? still figuring out the lingo, sorry) are so quiet I'm even posting actual posts. Or on news posts, I have a question about the content where on reddit someone will have already asked and I can just see what responses or vitriol they got.

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

Communities on Lemmy, magazines on Kbin. Fyi 🙂

[–] Neirin_D@feddit.uk 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I was a lurker on reddit, but I'm commenting a lot more here. I want to help Lemmy grow.

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

I'm also MUCH more active on Lemmy, especially because the community is currently so non-toxic and it (mostly) feels so welcoming and warm

[–] NABDad@lemmy.world 7 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I love everyone posting about lurking

[–] Svengarlic@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I think it's because we know we need to post, but also know we have nothing constructive to add to most things we're looking at. It's like people replying all to a birthday email at the office.

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

Everyone has something interesting to share. I believe in you!

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 5 points 2 years ago

Not true. I've been participating here.

[–] Zer0Rank@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Was always just lurking on Reddit, maybe had one comment or so. For some reason, when moving over here, I've been enjoying this so much, I'm no longer just a lurker.

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

yeah i feel so much more motivated to contribute to new communities that i'd like to see grow and thrive

[–] kratoz29@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] samus12345@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

No, it's a butterfly.

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

I lurked on Reddit for many years. I’ve felt motivated enough to post comments here and hopefully find good content for the growing new communities here.

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

In Reddit there usually already a comment saying what I think so I would rather just updot, hence I lurk less and comment more here.

[–] Scrof@sopuli.xyz 2 points 2 years ago

Never not post.

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

Speak for yourself 😂

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

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html I guess that it provides some metric of how relevant a community is and I presume in the future it could be tied into ranking of ratings of posts and comments

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

You can't see me

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

👀👀👀

[–] Fanghole@reddthat.com 1 points 2 years ago

Neither of these extremes fit. Huh

[–] jcmurty@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I think there's a greater chance of lemmy users interacting rather than just lurking because of the requirement of posting or commenting to be counted as active which should in turn help grow the community

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

Is there a reason why I should care if my account is active or not? Genuine question I just made my account two days ago

[–] derekabutton@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a great point. Happy to help!!

[–] jcmurty@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

a question remain - while I think the requirement to engage to be counted as active will certainly increase engagement generally - will it lead to "quality" content and comments? not that I currently know exactly how you quantify quality

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

That's a good question, and probably not. I figure growth won't increase the proportion of quality comments, but it will undoubtedly increase the frequency. Hopefully the voting system will cause low quality comments to drift away from what we tend to see.

Something I take away from forums is that user volume is incredibly impactful, even if most is low quality. As long as there is something to scrape off the top, I think I'll be satisfied. Obviously this misses some nuance but I think it works as a rule of thumb, especially to grow incredibly small niche communities that otherwise won't exist.

[–] azulavoir@sh.itjust.works -1 points 2 years ago

I was above average active on reddit. I hope I can be the same here