this post was submitted on 05 Dec 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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Would be a fun statistic to see the percentage of people that've already seen it.

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[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 19 points 3 months ago (2 children)

When the same guy makes the same post to 10 different instances I wish lemmy would group them together or somehow amalgamate the 10 disparate conversations together. Lemmy is several orders of magnitude more reposty than reddit which is saying a lot.

[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I've been waiting on my email for a few weeks....

[–] FlowerFan@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 3 months ago

For blahaj? I never got one as well, just try out if your account is activated.

[–] urheber@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Yeah because we (Lemmy) are about 5 people

[–] Peppycito@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

I look at people's post history and if they're serial crossposters I block them. So lemmy is pretty much just you and me.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 12 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I wonder if Lemmy had emoji reactions, if there'd end up being an emoji code that sorta meant this

[–] inlandempire@jlai.lu 25 points 3 months ago
[–] Oisteink@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] orbituary@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Perfect. Nobody uses that one for anything.

[–] Nanook@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 months ago
[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's usually what I use the downvote button for. Especially if I've seen it recently.

[–] notsure@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

...why do you need to announce it?..

[–] squirrel@piefed.zip 4 points 3 months ago

Reposts are like cover songs. They keep the original alive.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 4 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

We should have a long-press function that opens a reaction wheel with ten different options and you should be able to select multiple.

[–] lemmyng@piefed.ca 3 points 3 months ago

But the data needs to be correlated! For example, how many people know it's a repost but upvote it anyway because it's a classic?

[–] notsure@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

...general riposte!..

[–] Zomg@piefed.world 2 points 3 months ago

What's old to you is new to someone else though. I try to not get too bothered by this.

[–] Cevilia@lemmy.blahaj.zone -1 points 3 months ago

Downvotes aren't even a thing on my instance. We only have the upvote button. I like it that way tbh :)