this post was submitted on 11 Aug 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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[–] dojan@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (18 children)

I'd love to be able to block an entire instance. @lemmynsfw has a tonne of creepy-ass communities dedicated to posting pictures of female celebrities. There's never any sort of real content, just celebrities, sometimes in revealing clothes, and creepy titles like "beautiful" or "wow" or something like that.

Was just scrolling through the All feed and saw one for Sadie Sink. The entire thing gives me the willies, it's so gross.

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[–] twistypencil@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago

I would also like lemmy to be more smart about detecting languages, because individuals don't set the language and I'm constantly blocking communities from Austria or whatever simply because I can't read them, not because I hate Austria, it's delightful there

[–] Exusia@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Oh my fucking God yes. Every individual pro (nfl?) football team has a sub Every individual pro fifa (whatever) soccer team has a sub Every individual ice hockey team has a sub Polo. Formula 1. COLLEGE football teams! College football divisions! And whos going to the super bowl. Basketball. A sub for who's going to make it to the final 5. Volleyball. Whatever big volleyball bullshit is. And then relevant WOMENS versions for all of these (no extra hate, just extra numbers) Baseball! Baseball teams history!

Then there's leagues! Big10. The other big conference! Every coalition for Soccer. Conferences for Basketball. Divisions for hockey. Like holy shit! There's more categories for sports than nsfw!

EDIT: I need to add that I did the math in another comment: there are (For a US citizen) 32 NFL teams and 113 College football teams. 32 Fifa Soccer teams. 29 US Mens soccer clubs (plus 3 Canadian). 12 More Women’s Soccer teams -only one league. 10 Formula 1drivers/teams. 8 womens volleyball teams. 30 mens baseball teams (29US 1 Canada). 32 teams in the NHL. and lastly, 30 NBA teams. In total this is 331 “Teams” and is the bare minimum before consulting each city will post about a game, individual players with followings, and broad subs like "MLB" is different from "Orioles" and results in more subs needed to block

[–] qbus@lemmy.world 14 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Unless it's NSFW sports content

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[–] kttnpunk@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Same though. Sports are boring asf to me, I can understand exercise and competition but I will NEVER see the appeal of watching people run around intermittently for hours at a time

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[–] shotgun_crab@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago

People have different tastes. The best way is to add a tag system (probably tags that are applied to entire communities)

[–] randon31415@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For a while, random posts would just transform into baseball live post, with the comments for unrelated posts below. The post was on the METS win, and the comments were talking about how this would help liberate Bakhmut. It's fixed now, sadly.

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[–] asg101@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

Sports, Religion and War, the 3 most wasteful activities humans have invented.

[–] DavyJones@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 years ago (8 children)
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[–] HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world 12 points 2 years ago

I just block the community

[–] vlad76@lemmy.sdf.org 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Block the community and never see it again.

[–] VonCesaw@lemmy.world 15 points 2 years ago (3 children)

If past trends are to be believed, not only will every sport have its own community, but every team in said sport will have its own community

I don't want to have to systematically block 300-1000 different communities manually

[–] clever_sardonic_name@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago

This is the issue right here. Every enclave in Europe with 100 or more people seems to have at least 3 football clubs. I'm not hating on it, I just don't want it in my feed. It seems that interacting with sports content long enough to block it puts even more in my feed! Sheesh!

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[–] IamRoot@sh.itjust.works 10 points 2 years ago

You are not alone.

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Most of the sports-related communities seem to origin from the Fanaticus instance. Now if I could hide all posts from an instance right from Lemmy (without hiding comments from their users on posts outside of their instance) that would mostly solve the problem.

The idea of having community tags would be nice too, but we'd have to settle down on a taxonomy that isn't too broad or precise and that has a localized version so that all languages can link to the same taxonomy.

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[–] echoplex21@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Not gonna lie, I love sports and don’t see any on my feed. In fact I’m subbed to a lot and even my subscribed tab is very sparse.

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[–] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

I would rather have a filter that would hide any content that is related to chosen topics.

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