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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:
- 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
Rules
- 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
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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You can also accidentally post to a Lemmy community by tagging it in your Mastodon post. Hi from Lemmy!
I was wondering why they were explaining Lemmy while on Lemmy 🤣
@TeaHands Oops... hi! With great power, comes great responsibility, I guess.
(I suppose this could technically be a shower thought. It's sort of on topic...)
I'll allow it.
I wonder if it's possible to post to Misskey from here. Artists seem to want to flock to there.
It's tricky because Lemmy doesn't support following people directly.
I think you can @ people on Mastodon/Misskey/Firefish by
@user@instance.tldand they will see it, and I assume if you reply to a post or comment made by them (since they can post/comment here) they can interact with it normally.No idea if using hashtags on Lemmy will populate people's Mastodon feed with those posts, but I assume... not?
Yeah I tried the hashtags-in-a-Lemmy-reply thing once for science, they just show up as plain text on Mastodon.
How did the showerthoughts tag result in the lemmy.world instance getting the post? Did all showerthouts communities get it, or is there only 1 community by that name?
On Mastodon, Lemmy communities show up similarly to how a regular Mastodon user does, and can be searched and tagged similarly. So in this case, OP tagged this community specifically rather than any others with the same name.
I believe if you try and tag multiple it only posts to the first community mentioned in your toot, but don't quote me on that one!