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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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Well I mean that's kind of what Lemmy is like since it's far more niche than something like reddit, but AI crawlers will find it anyway.
AI crawlers don’t even need to crawl individual instances. If someone wanted to scrape Lemmy, it would be way more efficient to simply spin up their own instance and let federation do its thing. Federation is literally a built in way to mass distribute content to a bunch of different servers. So just spin up an instance, set it to not respect delete requests, (so you still get the deleted posts and comments), and scrape it locally. The entire thing could be set up in like 20 minutes, and it would allow for passive data collection instead of requiring active scrapers that run constantly.
Efficiency is not what AI is known for.