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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:

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    • 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.
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I can't really think of a reason for that as Reddit is hated somewhat equally by "both" sides of the spectrum. It's just something I find interesting.

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[–] kplaceholder@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (24 children)

Funny, just a few hours ago I was telling a friend that I noticed the opposite. This conversation started because while r/antiwork and r/work_reform had mostly incompatible ideologies, with antiwork being more radical, Lemmy suggested to me a community titled "Antiwork/Work reform" which is noticeably more status quo compacent. Additionally, the rate of posts going "capitalism isn't that bad, actually" and "fuck tankies" in my TL is higher than in Reddit.

I think this has to do with the amount of active users. If, say, 2% of active users are very vocal about abolishing wage slavery, if there are like 1000 users, that 2% is just 20 people, which wouldn't make a very active community, whereas if it's 100 000 users, then that makes 2000 people who can already make a sort of "echo chamber" where they can openly and actively discuss their ideas.

Also, not to forget that Reddit, like all mass social media, has algorithms meant to maximize your session lengths and that usually involves exposing you to more extremist ideas, both left and right.

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[–] gmtom@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Unfortunately the chuds have started pouring in, because we all know those people cant just let people enjoy themselves if it means they're not getting attention.

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[–] Buffalox@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago (5 children)

IDK, seems like European right wing is considered left wing in USA.

So for most Americans, most Europeans are left wing.

Maybe lemmy has more Europeans?

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[–] Gamey@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Mastodon managed to fight off bigots and nazis very successfully, maybe they do have enough brain cells to remember something I guess.

[–] pyrflie@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (6 children)

See, my worry was Mastadon's Fascist rep. Lemmy's left twist is no sweat of my back.

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[–] ZombieZookeeper@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago

I don't mind. Fewer conservatives means higher quality and higher general IQ.

[–] newIdentity@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] kSPvhmTOlwvMd7Y7E@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I am not that leftist.

[–] gullible@kbin.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The ultraconservatives already left for gab and truth social. There are some conservative instances and a few nazi ones as well, but the aforementioned two scooped up most of right wingers willing to jump ship.

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[–] gunnm@monero.town 8 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I am not American so I don't care about your left winged ideas.

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[–] joel_feila@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Well it small anr mostly made up of young techies. So yeah a left leaning bunch.

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