this post was submitted on 04 Jul 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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[–] MadBabs@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Thteven@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago

Don't worry, the bot will still respond and it will get 10,000 upvotes from other bots and replies like "grond" and "15 years is 7889400 minutes" and "pass me the breastplate stretcher!" and the one real person left on reddit will smile and think "I love being part of such a large and thriving online community".

[–] zkikiz@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

You were a good bot, RemindMe. I want you to remember that.

[–] signofzeta@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 2 years ago

!RemindMe to think of you. Good bot.

[–] GoosLife@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

I used to get a notification every year for some dude who had posted on reddit that he was alone on his birthday one year. He stopped replying several years ago, but I still messaged him each year at the prompt of remindme. So that's also a use case.

[–] psycrow@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

It's about time that people understood that "Everything on the internet lasts forever" is a falsehood formed from a Web 2.0 mindset. Now those big Web 2.0 sites everyone thought would dominate the internet forever are dying, and the only thing saving what was on those websites (the internet archive) is being constantly sued by greedy publishers.

[–] whoamibro@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Do we have any remindme bot in lemmy?

[–] lemonadebunny@lemmy.ca 0 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] remindme@mstdn.social 1 points 2 years ago

@lemonadebunny Here is your reminder!

[–] JshKlsn@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 years ago

Wonder how long until someone makes a lemmy instance for only bots, with some cool domain like @lemmy.bot

Then we don't have to remember all of the domains, and we can get easy to remember bots like;

remindme@lemmy.bot

[–] vsp@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Awww, man.

Now I'm sad.

Thanks a lot, @orion2145. Not cool.

[–] orion2145@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

I’m right there with you. Can’t unthink it.

[–] zeppo@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It was sort of ambitious for people to think they'd be on reddit with the same account in 20 years

[–] gk99@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I don't think so, reddit was so dominant that had they simply not decided to anger all their power users, we'd all still be on there like nothing had changed. A good platform has staying power, I've been on Steam for 16 years and I have no plans of bailing on it because it's simply the best gaming platform I've ever used. It's not game lock-in or anything, most of my games I could buy elsewhere or pirate, I just like having the features and all these other ones popping up like GOG Galaxy still aren't overtaking it despite the good PR.

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

Yahoo answers held on for decades after it was relevant, I'm sure Reddit will be around in 15 years.

Sadly, Remindbot will be reminding a ghost town populated only by other bots

[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Even Digg is still around these days

[–] xaxl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Probably one of the few useful bots ever added to Reddit.

We didn't need a million and one spelling, grammar and whatever other stupid bots the place got infected with. Hopefully Lemmy doesn't end up with them either.

[–] Vupperware@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Personally, I think the grammar bots fit right into Reddit culture.

Everyone is a smarty-pants on Reddit!

I do hope that people respect the instance hosts and go easy on the trivial bots when it comes to Lemmy though.