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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: 1

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  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. 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
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

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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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Beehaw defederated from other instances as users were getting around bans by creating new accounts on those instances. The admins in question are talking about how to address this.

[–] Dohnakun@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)
[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 11 points 2 years ago

Right now there is not even a notification to the original instance that an user has been banned on some other one's community. That means people can follow the rules on their home instance, like by not participating, while freely breaking them on federated ones, without their home instance admins ever knowing... until some other instance's admin either contacts them directly, or defederates the whole instance.

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 8 points 2 years ago

Lemmy isn't really set up for that. Its current structure is such doesn't allow for that, and developers are still trying to do more for new user verification.

This is something that larger websites spend a ton of money and developer time to fight, which is something Lemmy currently doesn't have.

[–] AllGoesUpMustGoDown@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

How would that work though?

[–] Jode@midwest.social 2 points 2 years ago

Hell we don't even federate usernames which I find extremely problematic. But we'll get there... I hope.