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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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  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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Especially not having ads.

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[–] PunkRockSportsFan@fanaticus.social 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Advertisements are pollution

[–] MoonRaven@feddit.nl 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It is and we know what how they can be used to manipulate people.

This also reminded me that I should freaking donate monthly to my instance owner since I can afford to.

Edit: I now have a monthly donation setup.

[–] Mearuu@kbin.melroy.org 3 points 1 month ago

A few months before I completely left Facebook all I saw on my feed were ads. Absolutely no content from friends. The only way to see that they had updated anything was to go to their page. I would follow them and still no updates on my feed at all.

Facebook is not a social network, now it is only an ad network and the ads were rarely relevant. It’s not even good a being shitty.

[–] TranquilTurbulence@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 month ago

One friend keeps sending me some weird AI generated videos from time to time. I guess he gets those from Facebook, Instagram or some other trash pile like that. I have no idea how horrible it would be to see that sort of AI vomit all the time.

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 1 points 1 month ago

Top communities in your list?