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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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After migrating from Reddit, it’s jarring that comment sections aren’t cluttered with hashtag-style comments that are just links to subreddits like /HoLuP/ (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
submitted 1 year ago by Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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I love that comment sections here are like, y’know, discussions and stuff. Not just the same jokes and parroted phrases over and over and over.

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[–] Coehl@programming.dev 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Still kinda is. Take r/Seattle as an example. A massive segment of that community could not stand the main mod, so they had to make r/SeaWa, which when compared to just hosting a new Seattle community on a different instance, it eliminates that issue where the more popular iteration appears less.. official?

What's less good is when you like two communities by the same name on different instances, so you have to keep checking which one you're on, lol.

[–] Lith@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is still an issue with Lemmy though. Ultimately, one instance's community is going to be "the" community for a given topic, most likely because it's on a popular instance, and at a certain point it's going to devolve the same way default subs did. People who wouldn't join r/SeaWa probably aren't going to join seattle@unpopular.domain with 50 active users, either. Personally, I'm more inclined to choose r/SeaWa over r/Seattle because it sounds less official.

This seems more like an aesthetic issue than a real problem, and don't get me wrong, I'm all for getting the community name you want on a different instance, but I don't think that's grounds for "Lemmy will never become a circlejerk".

[–] Coehl@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

I may have lost the thread if my response seemed to suggest that Lemmy will never become a circlejerk.

I'm seeing a whole lot of that already.