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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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We all migrate to smaller websites try not to post outside drawing attention just to hide from the "Ai" crawlers. The internet seems dead except for the few pockets we each know existed away from the clankers

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[–] early_riser@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

I have made a concerted effort over the last two or three years to de-urbanize my online activity. One thing I've noticed is that even small communities are affected by AI. Crawlers and spambots can cause a small site with limited resources to crumple under the weight of nonhuman traffic, a DDoS attack more or less. This makes it hard to self host a community.

While the fediverse helps to some degree it still suffers from copying the format of big social media sites. Lemmy is just a Reddit clone and Mastodon a Twitter clone, so the cultures of these communities mimic those of the big sites they emulate.