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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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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.
- A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
- Posts must be original/unique
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I like that on Lemmy you can comment on a 20+ hour old thread from the “front page” and still have a good chance at responses or interaction from other users.
Any subreddit that regularly hits the front page of Reddit requires that users comment in the first hour or two of the post being made, or latch onto some chain from the top existing comments, or else your comment is basically just thrown into the void. It’s even worse now that Reddit has started showing day or week old posts on the front page, like why bother commenting on those posts when absolutely no one will see it…
They're showing day or weed old posts on the front page? I wonder if they're losing members that give content or is there another reason?
Yep, if you open any subreddit (not including the reddit.com front page), it sprinkles days old posts in with the default “Best” filter. It’s a mystifyingly annoying change because from a user perspective you have to re-read the same post multiple times each week, and there’s no point further commenting on those threads because no one else is still engaging with them.
It’s like the worst of all worlds combination of old forums and old Reddit, because old threads keep getting necro-ed, but users have no control over which ones are coming back or when they do.
you are on to something. after my last acc was shadowbanned for a comment from a mod removal, not even major policy. i started visiting the shadowban subs, thats the only place you can comment and people respond. i noticed almost everyone there has been shadowbanned for no apparent reason, soon after account creation, a simple comment that caught a filter?
it seems like they are culling the reddit population to a small managable group, so they can probably sell it off, also because Musk is responsible for some of the major purges this year, since he has complained to SPEZ on quite a few occasions.
Is that a thing? Why would they want a smaller user group to sell it? We are talking about Spez, so who tf knows, but that seems really dumb.
I thought it would be because everyone who made content left, kind of like how X is.
they dont want to sell a loud left leaning userbase, the more neutral or right leaning the better
Maybe you're right, they did seem to be heading that direction a few years ago when I left.
because lemmy is probably more engaged with the "threads more" on reddit its like quick fix, and most of its political, there are on to the next thing that trump has right now, or some thing republicans are doing, also i rarely revisit old political posts anyways, you can get into deep with arguments, and it sometimes doesnt end on reddit.