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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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[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Maturity really isn't the same as age: plenty of legally adult people (many already so for decades) around who are anything but mature individuals.

That said, as others here I think the absence of the subtle pressures derived from commercialization and profit-seeking make most of the difference.

Also, I've been thinking about the possibiility that both those already in Lemmy before and the Reddit refugees who came in recently, are at the most principled end of the spectrum compared with those still in Reddit (whose principles on the subject of ultra-authoritarian top-down imposition as done in Reddit clearly aren't strong enough to make them try something else), possibly also more confortable with change. This might make the crowd here at the moment a self-selected bunch leaning significantly more towards a certain psychological profile than the average which in turn (or so is my theory) affects the dominant tone of discussions here.

[–] cOlz@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We are all early adopters here. They are typically more engaged with the product.

[–] Aceticon@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

That is a really good point which I hadn't thought about.

[–] Piers@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It doesn't even really matter what the common traits are of the self-selcting group of people who are here in the early days are. They exist and therefore that group is more alike each other than at a broader platform like at Reddit. Even if we are all objectively ignorant jerks, because we are similar we will feel that the people we are talking with are decent and smart because they have similar strengths and blindspots to ourselves (think of any community that is repellent to you. The people in there all seem to think one another are wonderful.)