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:
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.
You know, Lemmy is powered by the users. The sports community will never grow if no one is here to grow it. Most people that jumped ship to build and grow Lemmy are techies, and likely not interested in sports all that much.
You just planted the seed, will you also be a watering can?
We are in at the ground level of Lemmy. A lot of people like OP are passive consumers, but now is the time to step up, get out of your comfort zone and start building the communities you want to see. You might have to hustle a little bit
If you do start up a community you can link it like this:
Here's a totally random community about strength and hypertrophy training for example
Nah, I'm just gonna do what I'm doing. Commenting on stuff I like or am interested in and that's it. I'm way too anti-social to do something like building a community.
This is so dismissive.
I spent a full year posting to !leagueoflegends@lemmy.world and interaction there is still minimal to dead.
It's not really the starting of communities that needs help. We need more people to be the second and third person to join and help communities that someone else is trying to start.
This 100%, it's even harder when someone puts a posting bot in a sub and expects people to show up. The best communities started by someone creating a sub and posting things they found interesting. Treating it like a personal link archive. Then people would add to the discussion after finding you. If you are posting for a few weeks and then just gives up. It just makes the problem worse. Since now people have to sift through a bunch of dead communities on multiple instances all named the same.
It has to be built organically it's like people with video channels on YouTube or peer tube. Making your first video and if it doesn't do well they quit. Most successful creators made tons of videos before they took off. They kept at it because they were making the videos for themselves for just the sake of self expression as their first priority and the views will come.
This is kind of a problem in the NFL Community actually. There's one user, I don't know if it's a bot or not, who just shotguns like 10 to 15 post at a time. It washes out any discussion in the entire community.
Yep people like that that use bots or worse AI to auto post think they are helping but are just bring the dead internet theory to reality.
Did you see that ludicrous display last night?
What was Wenger thinking, sending Walcott on that early?
(The original site, vectorbelly, is not loading for me, but fortunately I found this backup)
!superbowl@lemmy.world is very active
When are the owls gonna play sportsball?
Hoot hoot, hike!
It does feel like a small town. Most small towns don't have pro sports teams, though.
Oh shit this reminds me of a discussion I had on here a while ago when I found out there are only 40,000 daily active users on average and realizing that it was less than half of th capacity of highmark stadium. So yeah, Lemmy does have that small town vibe but its more of a small geographic community like, for example, New England or Western New York. I can go to any Bills game with 80,000 other fans and I can take a piss or grab a beer without running into someone I know. Its exactly the same with Lemmy too.
And all I want is to never see sports related communities. So I guess I win there...
Unfortunately I also never want to see anything that mentions anime or manga and in that department it's serious whackamole for me.
Lemmy is full of a bunch of older neckbeards, based on my observations. (Inclusive of me)
This is just one narrow view on things, tho.
The Lemmy user base tilts alternative (queer, neurodiverse, subculturally niche, politically leftist beyond the mainstream centre-left and such), whereas sports fandom is coded aggressively mainstream, as part of what it means to pass the normality tests, so there’d be fewer sports fans than in a randomly chosen population. Maybe if there’s an influx of normies here, the sports forums will fill out.
I'm not a sports guy, I'm pretty anti-sports actually (I can go on absolutely unhinged TED talks about how the local teams are trying to drain the city for taxes... I want to continue, so feel free to ask but not doing it here.) But I agree with you on the niche hobbies and local flavor.
I still have to use Reddit because there hasn't been a good community for local on Lemmy (yes, I know everyone going "it's user generated" but I'm like 1 of 5 instead of the hundreds still on reddit) and small hobbies in a lot of the crafting world is non-existent on Lemmy.
I don't have an answer on this one, just sucks. It's the trouble of being one of the first ones in the door.
Dude. Sports is literally everywhere. It doesn't need to reach its greedy tendrils into yet another corner of society.
Yeah, I try to engage on the sports posts because there isn’t much going on in these comms. But I’m hopeful we can get some growth eventually
I like to pretend that all the Lemmy communities have a unique participants but in really it is just the same people on the same few communities.
I also feel like we need some Lemmy specific lingo. Reddit has subs I wonder what Lemmy has. Communities is just to long to type out.
Lemmy is also primarily used by super nerds who don't care about sportsball. Not enough normies here compared to Reddit.
Thankfully our !nba@lemmy.world community is semi-active. Obviously not as much as r/nba, but we do have active mods and game day threads.
Does anyone else feel like these national leagues have become just as disconnected from reality as any other hyper capitalist enterprise?
I want more hometown sports. I daydream about leagues funded by local communities, starring local talent, with smaller local crowds. Is there anyone else out there who would give much more of a shit if things were a little more close to home, reality-wise? Am I alone?
Guys getting paid literally hundreds of millions to play a sport is unrelatable. A local star making $300k and being a part of the community feels better to me. Seems like we should be able to afford a lot of those for the money we are spending.
I know next to nothing about sports or the business around them, but I know I remember summer nights with cheap hotdogs and minor league ball that seem to have evaporated as the wealthy accumulated. 🤷♂️
There are still lots of minor leagues and they still serve cheap hotdogs tbh
"I like the absence of corporate shills and ads." Also, why doesn't anyone talk about sports teams owned by billionaires and corporations?
HAHA SPORTSBALL GUYS.
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PLEASE CLAP
Yeah but did you try Linux
As a sports fan (NHL, NFL, NBA, ATP) I feel lucky to have a bunch of sports fan coworkers. We talk sports and joke around at work all day.
I do wish the sports communities on lemmy were more active. It seems like lemmy’s left-wing community does not have very many sports fans.
I think it's also just tricky because sports fans tend to want to follow discussion of their team, which splits for example the soccer/football community into hundreds of sub-communities. I used to follow r/panthers (I am a long suffering charlotte home team supporter) but such a community doesn't exist on lemmy. Similarly, you don't really see active individual video game communities on lemmy even though that is more up the alley of the average lemmy user.
The F1 communities are fairly active but TBF it's mostly because a few people regularly post news articles
the Liverpool FC community is a good example of this LOL
one of the biggest teams in the world, winning the EPL and the most popular community has only a few people that post a comment and rarely is there a post more then just the mod doing a gameday thread
Maybe Lemmy has a decent amount of users who are more inclined to nerd stuff like Linux and frisbee? I don't care for sports or cars or other "cool" dude stuff. But I love computers and books and frisbee (which I don't get to throw nearly enough). This just got me thinking. I'm gonna actively try to get some friends together to toss the bee. In my forties. Like we were in our teens. Thanks for inspiring me.
Try being into less mainstream sports. It's like me and one other guy talking to each other over on !sumo@lemmy.world
Wow. I didn't realize so many people here were anti sports. Interesting.
I do miss the sports from Reddit so I still go back for that. But I've also decided to try to be the change ... So I've started to post more in the sports communities around here.
It's probably the last thing I still go back to Reddit for. Otherwise Lemmy is my go to.