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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

Rules

  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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[–] Chozo@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think whatever you're doing is a little overkill for Lemmy. Normal users don't have these issues.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Normal users don't have these issues.

That’s not true. Cloudflare marginalizes both normal users and street-wise users. In particular:

  • users whose ISP uses CGNAT to distribute a limited range of IPv4 addresses (this generally impacts poor people in impoverished regions)
  • the Tor community
  • VPN users
  • users of public libraries, and generally networks where IP addresses are shared
  • privacy enthusiasts who will not disclose ~25% of their web traffic to one single corporation in a country without privacy safeguards
  • blind people who disable images in their browsers (which triggers false positives for robots, as scripts are generally not interested in images either)
  • the permacomputing community and people on limited internet connections, who also disable browser images to reduce bandwidth which makes them appear as bots
  • people who actually run bots – Cloudflare is outspokenly anti-robot and treats beneficial bots the same as malicious bots

There are likely more oppressed groups beyond that because there is no transparency with Cloudflare.

[–] BaroqueInMind@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Good thing that they can just simply use another fucking instance thanks to federated systems.

[–] ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Not exactly. [!showerthoughts@lemmy.world](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world) was a poor choice, as is:

  • [!showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster](/c/showerthoughts@zerobytes.monster) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works](/c/showerthoughts@sh.itjust.works) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ca](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ca) ← Cloudflare
  • [!showerthoughts@lemm.ee](/c/showerthoughts@lemm.ee) ← Cloudflare
  • [!hotshowerthoughts@x69.org](/c/hotshowerthoughts@x69.org) ← Cloudflare, and possibly irrelevant
  • [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ml](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ml) ← not CF, but copious political baggage, abusive moderation & centralized by disproportionate size

They’re all shit & the OP’s own account is limited to creating a new community on #lemmyWorld. [!showerthoughts@lemmy.ml](/c/showerthoughts@lemmy.ml) would be the lesser of evils but the best move would be create an acct on a digital rights-respecting instance that allows community creations and then create showerthoughts community there.

(EDIT) [!showerThoughts@fedia.io](/c/showerThoughts@fedia.io) should address these issues.