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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 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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If the descentralization of social networks continue, we will have to prepare for the eventual rise of the instances wars, where people will start to fight about which instance is better and which one is weird to be in and so on, but that's for the future of us all.

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[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 8 points 2 years ago (2 children)

You can host your own instance too.

[–] Yhmg@lemmy.world 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Forgive my ignorance but if you federate an instance, does that instance have to federate you back? In order for you to comment/upvote/see posts etc?

[–] cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Nope, assuming the default settings - that is, they've not explicitly decided to allowlist selected servers or block yours - there's nothing that instance has to do if you subscribe to a community on it.

They'll push content to you and it just magically works.

TLDR: federation is basically a push from the origin server (the one the community belongs to) to any server that subscribes to that community.

[–] Vex_Detrause@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I made my own instance with only me as a member and I only subscribe to showerthoughts.lemmy.fmhy.lm then that's the only community/push update my instance would get?

[–] cstine@lemmy.uncomfortable.business 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Yep, you'll only get content that someone on your instance has subscribed to, so if that's the only subscription that's the only content that'll show up.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

Where can I read about this architecture?

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

I'm not the right person to ask.

[–] Koopa_Khan@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Where could I go to learn how to host my own instance? I’d be interested if I could control my own up time and be the only user so I didn’t have to worry about moderating other users.

[–] lightsecond@programming.dev 1 points 2 years ago

Go to https://join-lemmy.org/ and click on Run a Server

[–] someguy3@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago

I'd start googling.