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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS
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Link me to your wonderful social media utopia that isn't an echo chamber.
Facebook - Echo chamber, actively manipulated to make you be the most pissed off and spend the most time on it as possible and click on customized ads
Instagram - Echo chamber, specifically tuned to make you feel jealous of others and buy shit covered in the ads
Nextdoor - Basically Facebook but with a "locals only" aesthetic
LinkedIn - An echo chamber tuned for people who nod vigorously to everything the CEO says in the "all-hands" meeting
Threads - Echo chamber, tuned toward people to click on ads just like other Meta properties
YouTube - Practically a right-wing echo chamber, you can watch a video about cute puppies and with no watch history turned on you'll be on Infowars-like content within 2 degrees of Kevin Bacon (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Six_Degrees_of_Kevin_Bacon)
Twitter (I'll continue to have this as my only deadname) - A right-wing echo chamber full of bots including "MechaHitler"
Bluesky - An echo chamber similar to Twitter before it was musked up
Mastodon - A left-wing echo chamber (similarly to Lemmy it's decentralized, and similarly to Lemmy it is somewhat moderated in a way that rids you of most right-wing / hitler-focused media)
Truth social - I mean, obviously a right-wing echo chamber
Reddit - An algorithmically tweaked astroturf echo chamber full of bots and serving up a daily AI training ground that gets more right-wing as time passes
Hacker news - A libertarian-leaning tech-literate echo chamber
TikTok - An algorithmically tweaked, purposefully addictive echo chamber that shows you what you want to see so you volunteer your money and your data
Shall I go on?
I don't just allow "both sides" to come into my living room and have a debate with me about whether or not trans people should be able to exist in peace or whether or not minorities should be exterminated. I similarly don't waste time "debating" them on social media or reading their posts. Tolerance of intolerant people just so we can "cover both sides" isn't a high priority of mine on social media, and it's also not available anywhere anyway.