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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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showerthoughts is just a place for people who don't have microblogging social media to dump their random thoughts (iusearchlinux.fyi)
submitted 7 months ago by backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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[–] solidgrue@lemmy.world 73 points 7 months ago (2 children)

I should open a Mastodon account

[–] AlolanYoda@mander.xyz 36 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I have a Mastodon account but I'm too socially anxious to actually post there

I'm also too socially anxious to post here but the comment format helps me get over it sometimes

[–] moistclump@lemmy.world 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Feels more conversational vs shouting into the void vibe.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 10 points 7 months ago

That's why I've never understood microblogging. I have a mastodon it just seems totally pointless tho.

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 9 points 7 months ago

The illusion of anonymity helps a lot. Nobody knows what we look like or what our net worth is or what gross habits we have, we're all on even playing ground here, sharing our thoughts as anonymous humans.

[–] Crackhappy@lemmy.world 4 points 7 months ago

I get you. I have a private journal that I post my thoughts on, as I don't want some random person I don't know chiming in.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 18 points 7 months ago

I prefer the communities method more, since slows down my over sharing

[–] VubDapple@lemmy.world 44 points 7 months ago

Showerthoughts goes meta

[–] HarbingerOfTomb@lemmy.world 24 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Is that a problem?

[–] wellee@lemmy.world 32 points 7 months ago

Ain't no one said it was, pitchforks down

[–] inconel@lemmy.ca 18 points 7 months ago

You can expect more interaction on the showethought itself. IMO microblogs are more about poster, thread style forum is for a topic.

[–] Etterra@lemmy.world 13 points 7 months ago (2 children)

If the options are u/showerthoughts or ~~Twitter~~ X, then I choose u/showerthoughts.

[–] strawberry@kbin.run 9 points 7 months ago

mastodon,?

[–] LemmyKnowsBest@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

I agree. Things are much more dignified over here.

[–] gregorum@lemm.ee 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Not nearly as racist, though

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi -1 points 7 months ago

This just in: @gregorum@lemm.ee admits to not knowing what the fediverse is – on the fediverse.

[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Oh no

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I see what you did there.

[–] backhdlp@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 7 months ago

I'm gonna pretend like I didn't post this on microblogging fedi 2 months ago already

[–] AgentGrimstone@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

Is there an actual mind dump community? I would have been a bigger Twitter user if I didn't feel like I was speaking into a void.