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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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[–] answersplease77@lemmy.world 13 points 21 hours ago (6 children)

your privacy is worse on lemmy. anyone can access all your comment and post upvotes and downvotes. your pms are open for server admins to read. both examples need to be fixed imo

[–] ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 17 hours ago

Btw, your PMs being available to admins is the same on like every socmed. If you have to use lemmy as your secure method of communication (you shouldn't), at least use PGP, but lemmy isn't meant for that, use XMPP or Matrix or even Signal I guess.

[–] Mongostein@lemmy.ca 12 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

People DM each other on Lemmy?

[–] tauren@lemm.ee 5 points 16 hours ago

TIL that feature exists

[–] Kekzkrieger@feddit.org 8 points 18 hours ago

So can you on reddit.

[–] rowdyrockets@lemm.ee 3 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

Your privacy is the same on either. But now, anyone can gain that information, not just Reddit’s investors and partners.

It’s what you write on these platforms that affects your privacy.

[–] s08nlql9@lemm.ee 2 points 19 hours ago* (last edited 19 hours ago) (1 children)

So, is it better to host your own instance?

[–] kuberoot@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 18 hours ago

Doesn't change the voting situation. Since your votes need to be seen by other instances, Lemmy needs a mechanism for federating votes. Since instances are untrusted, there needs to be some way of preventing manipulation. Thus, AFAIK, Lemmy simply shares your votes across instances, letting each one tally them up. As a side effect, any server admin of an instance you can interact with can also get a list of all your votes.

[–] admin@lemmy.today 1 points 20 hours ago

Man So much this.