this post was submitted on 02 Jul 2023
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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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    • 3.1) NEW RULE as of 5 Nov 2024, trying it out
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    • 3.3) Try c/politicaldiscussion, volunteer as a mod here, or start your own community.
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[–] [email protected] 0 points 38 minutes ago

hey @everyone ! ,

i'm selling these accounts :

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3/outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3/outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3@outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

each account is 100 usd, highest bidder gets all 3 !!! $$$$$$$$$$

[–] [email protected] 1 points 38 minutes ago

hey @everyone ! ,

i'm selling these accounts :

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3/outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3/outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

email is [email protected], password is Bavin3@outlet, u can log in change it share with ur friends same for discord yall can try the email and password and change it if you want

each account is 100 usd, highest bidder gets all 3 !!! $$$$$$$$$$

[–] [email protected] 236 points 1 year ago (56 children)

The big user experience problem is everyone is getting funneled into Lemmy.world and Lemmy.ml, and they can’t scare fast enough.

But Lemmy is federated. So signup for a smaller instance. You’ll still be able to subscribe and post to communities on other instances.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Ha, I applied to two smaller instances and have heard nothing but radio silence. The smaller instances are of no help if they don’t let anyone in.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (20 children)

Use and recommend lemm.ee, lemmy.one, and vlemmy.net to others

Seriously, stop recommending large servers when lemmy hasn't been optimized for that yet. The point of decentralization is spreading out and still being connected; let's not waste that advantage.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I run https://thelemmy.club - people are always welcome here :)

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I was on world at first because I thought each instance was its own subreddit, so I went with the one with the most users! After a day and a half I somewhat understand instances now and have switched to a smaller one. Hopefully other reddit refugees will do it too.

Thanks for being so welcoming and patient with us. I'm really glad to be here.

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[–] [email protected] 174 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Still better than the official reddit app.

[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

Smoke signals would be better than the official app.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I've considered switching to carrier pigeons

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago

A surprisingly low bar

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[–] [email protected] 141 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I want to be mad but FFS Reddit had Conde Nast money for most of its shittery so they had NO excuse except incompetence.

At least Fediverse servers are typically Steve's old laptop or some shit so it's understandable.

[–] [email protected] 94 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (31 children)

It's generally more like "Steve's 10 eur/mo cloud server in which they run ten other things next to Lemmy, which is written by two devs and barely held together by duct tape and prayers"

But that doesn't change the overall point.

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[–] [email protected] 114 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Given the... frankly absurd rate at which people are signing up to servers, and subscribing to other servers, and posting and commenting and upvoting and...

I mean it's getting a bit hairy, and user growth was already following a very steep growth curve. Reddifugees are hugging all instances to death.

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[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (1 children)

search actually works here.

already better than old reddit.

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[–] [email protected] 87 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It just feels so weird to have big threads with good fresh discussions going on hours after the post.

Not to say there isn't an occasional asshole here and there during this wave, but I don't think reddit has ever felt like this at any point.

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It's because sorting comments by "hot" prioritizes new comments more than old comments even taking into account votes. So a 3d old comment with 50 votes might appear below a 2h old comment with 5 votes. Unlike Reddit which just pushes the first comments to the top and anything new will drown in the sea of comments and never surface or be seen.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would upvote but I keep getting server-side errors

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[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (11 children)

And here I am laughing on my speedy private instance. For real, the best part of Lemmy is if your experience is bad you can hop to a different instance and not miss a post

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[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago (3 children)

It's early days here. Give it some time...

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (15 children)

For those of you who, like me, are coming from Apollo you guys can try wefwef.app. It’s great

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

If you’re bothered by performance, donate to the server to get better resources. Lemmy.world added more servers and load balancing, and there’s a patreon to donate $1 a month.

See the sidebar on the frontpage:

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago

To be fair, it worked well right before reddit cut off api access. This will probably happen everytime reddit does something stupid to drive away users. In other words, it could happen every two week based on how spez is lately.

[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Does the Narwhal bacon again?

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[–] [email protected] 43 points 1 year ago (14 children)

Legit the first thing I noticed. It’s actually not that hard to find the community you’re looking for.

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The instances are volunteer-ran and make no profit, give them some time to iron everything out

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago

Yeah but these guys aren't trying to make a profit from us and Reddit had venture capital money.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I forgive it. It has tremendous potential

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's great to be here. All part of the fun of being apart of something new.

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, every time I try to upvote something, it'll take like 10-15 seconds to register

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

All the old Redditors jumped ship. Let's hope the new redditors and spam bots don't jump ship with them.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You gotta use lemmy.world for the OG experience 😂

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Not sure if this is meant to be negative or positive but I for one like all the growing pains and issues. It makes the whole experience a little more engaging for me. I really like reading up on what problems are happening and how the teams are working towards solutions. I especially like the technical details that are just a little over my head because it’s fun to learn about!

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This is definitely a sink-or-swim moment for Lemmy. If this is going to work, this is the chance. Twitter and Reddit are imploding. Users have a reason to try something new and are willing to deal with young, buggy platforms because it's better than the alternative and they needed an Internet home. My upvote taking ten seconds to register is itself the knife's edge of creation, a new birth.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

The best part of this post, is the segue into the new !showerthoughts community

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (7 children)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (7 children)

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

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