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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: 1
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Doesn't join-lemmy.org have that?
When you click to join a server, it asks about interests and language and suggests servers.
They list lemmygrad under general purpose lmao
General Purpose (of Destroying the Capitalist Pig Dogs By Siding With... Fascists?)
Unfortunately, that seems to be about local communities, which aren't really important. In fact, due to federation, that's the least important aspect of an instance.
By default, Lemmy is wide open to anything and everything. You need to see what they have turned off/blocked/removed, to see if it's what you want.
Yeah I see your point. How easy would it be to sort a thousand instances automatically? Sure you could limit to the top instances, but smaller ones can be niche and I think you still need a way to recommend them. New instances also need a way to work their way up to being recommended.
A sorting hat would be cool but sounds like a lot of manual work!
It is run by the Tankie devs so I would be careful.
This is better: https://lemmyverse.net/
I'm not quite sure what part of that Lemmyverse.net page is like a sorting hat. I would say the official one is a gentler entry point than a big list of instances.
Though I am thinking another page with a better sorting hat would be better. It's kinda crazy a place like Hex-bear gets suggested when you want a general instance. The Fediverse Observer recommends servers but it always recommends Hilarious Chaos to me, which is crazy (it's Exploding Heads reincarnated).