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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:

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
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct and the TOS

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago (10 children)

The lack of video support is understandable tbh in 2 ways.

  • Storing a bunch of videos are really costly for the instance owners
  • Direct Youtube play on Lemmy directly probably won't ever happen, since Lemmy uses an open embed protocol (opengraph) and YT doesn't or something like that. There was an issue about this topic on Github but can't find it.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (9 children)

That doesn't change the fact that this problem exists. Reddit's superior multimedia support makes it a more competitive social media platform.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Reddit’s superior multimedia support

Never thought I'd ever read those 4 words in that order.

[–] Sonotsugipaa 3 points 2 years ago

I swear I could hand-write a set of ASCII art frames that you can turn into a low-res copy of Shrek by scrolling down really fast AND have it proof-read, by the time the Reddit video player successfully loads the play icon.

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