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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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It’s because the majority isn’t here yet. You would have the same quality in smaller subreddits, as long as they are somewhat moderated.
Just wait a few months and you’ll see the idiots returning with their cheap comments.
☝️ This
Don't kill me 😆
Oh god I forgot about those lame “witty” responses, all so original hahaha.
play stupid games
Please, good sir, take my updoot
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Thanks for the gold kind stranger
I love how the emoji is also italic
Ok hang on this is nuts.
How about bold? 🥵🤑😈
How about heading?
😏🤣👽
Strikethrough? ~~😱🤮🤔~~
🤡🤡👀🎉😂 Italics are the best though
Why tf is strikethrough emoji a thing
To specifically say I was going to smile, but I choose to not.
Because in unicode strikethrough is achieved by superimposing the strikethrough character on another character. So any regular character, emojis included, can be striked through.
𝕏̶
Kebabs
~~🌶️ 🍤 🥕 🍤 🌶️~~
Don't see any difference for bold emojis.
My mind is officially blown
🥺👉👈
That italic emoji makes me uncomfortable.
Listen here you little shit
Have my poor man's gold 🥇🥇🥇🥇🥇
"guys can we not do that reddit stuff here?"
The Eternal September waits for every platform
It’s nice to be here during what will eventually become “the good old days”, rather than finding out about it after it starts to suck.
But the Fediverse will be different. For example, instead of having one giant Politics community, we have two: [email protected] and [email protected], each with its own moderation style that has to respect the rules of its instance.
I think that's a lot healthier than having one giant Politics subreddit where it's hard to get involved because of the size and the immaturity of the people.
Did you even use Reddit? It has more political communities than you could count. Just because there's only one r/politics doesn't mean that's the only community you can choose from. Reddit has a lot of problems, but this is not one of them.
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 [email protected] 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".