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)

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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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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".