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Lemmy is a tech literate echo chamber
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this post was submitted on 29 Jul 2025
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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:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
Rules
- All posts must be showerthoughts
- The entire showerthought must be in the title
- 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
- Posts must be original/unique
- 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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Do you think creating a Lemmy account is that much harder then creating a reddit account (or any other website account)?
Yes it is. Because immediately you are faced with having to pick a server. And then grasp and navigate the fediverse, which depending on the use case is not as straightforward. There's generally more hoops to make things happen. Depending on the server you pick, the UI is not all that intuitive. And then you have things like mbin forks which swap terminology.
So no harder than email then
Signing up to Gmail is way more streamlined than any Lemmy instance sign up
Have you looked at the signup page for your Lemmy instance lately?
I just did. The age verification is the only thing that looks slightly confusing, and anyone keen enough would deal with that fine. It's not a technical skills/knowledge barrier, it's just reading comprehension.
People ask how to make a Lemmy account all the goddamn time. You're experiencing is preventing you from understanding how it looks to a new user. Go to any big sm platform and there'll be so much less clutter on the screen and fewer things to do