this post was submitted on 03 Mar 2026
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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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Yeah. Votes kind of suck. I have the arrows, but I only use them if someone’s really helpful, really rude, or their post is super useful, or egregiously bad. I sort everything by date, so people dog piling on someone won’t affect their post or comment’s standing in my feed.

Take the power back and do the same, if you can.

[–] SarahFromOz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah but sorting by new is not a good experience either.

Letting the site choose what we see with an algorithm is also awful.

Not sure what the answer is.

[–] Quilotoa@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I wonder what the difference would be if we eliminated down votes?

[–] gloktawasright@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

There are some lemmy instances that have dine just that I believe! You could ask them

[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 day ago

You get YouTube where everyone likes everything and nothing is ever bad quality /s

[–] Iconoclast@feddit.uk 0 points 1 day ago

Not sure what the answer is.

Keep the system but hide the scores from users.

[–] fruitycoder@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago

Its crazy how facebook added something cool like heart/madface/puke/like/laughing variation but basically just used it for sentiment harvesting.

Its dumb, id be down for a sort by laughs, sort by likes, and only in my communities feature, shrug

[–] Heinous@feddit.online -1 points 1 day ago

I agree but I down voted you for fun anyway