Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?
this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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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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I’ve been saying it’s an echo chamber for a while now and it makes me spend less time here.
I am a software developer so yes on the coding.
They are as tech literate as they are sport iliterate in my experience.
The fact that the community superbowl exists here to continue perpetuating a meme is peak irony. There are so few people interested in american football here that the intention has flipped, meaning a picture of an American football match would be funny.
On the topic of echo chambers - At what point did we decide that a bunch of people over a wide geographical area with similar interests and a common code of standards/preferences of civility... Is a bad thing?
It's kind of how social clubs exist irl.
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The average person probably couldn't figure it out because they don't care to. If you tell someone "Make a Lemmy account"ntheyll be confused. If you tell someone "Make an account at https://lemmy.world/" they'll figure it out. It's like if you give someone a puzzle but it's boring and they don't care to solve it, they're probably not gonna take the time to solve it.
Where's the meme of the wojack at the party standing in the corner saying "They don't even know how to boot from USB"
The reason I am still with .world is because I cant be arsed to figure out how to kove instance or remember hownI set it up.
I can copy command line prompts from forums and chatgpt to my newly linted linux pc...that I dont really use because I cant figure shit out.
I can confirm I can do the other things but can't do some form of coding or at least navigate a directory through the command line.
Strangely in work I'm the 'computer guy' as I can navigate Microsoft office.
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