this post was submitted on 17 May 2025
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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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But the advantage is that Lemmy allows Tor. 😅

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[–] Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 points 1 day ago (4 children)

I also like that Lemmy has a displayname field separate from the username and it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text. 😏

[–] RagingRobot@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago

That's how I can always spot you in the threads lol You probably never even noticed me though. I'm trying to be inconspicuous over here

[–] ABC123itsEASY@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Haha you are definitely the person that came to my mind but my client only shows the plaintext username now so it's a bit harder to spot you

[–] MrShankles@reddthat.com 2 points 21 hours ago

You just made me realize that my client only shows plaintext usernsmes now as well. Now I'm wondering what username was 👁👄👁 ... it always made me uncomfortable seeing it, dunno why

[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

it allows you to make it cooler than just boring plain text

Agree.

People who find it annoying have grown old and boring, or are too young to have posted on a phpbb with a tacky signature.


Tryin' to make a change :-\

[–] Texas_Hangover@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm glad connect blocks that annoying crap.

[–] viking@infosec.pub 3 points 1 day ago

Oh nice, maybe it's time to switch after all. It's been a pending feature on Sync since forever.