It’s true for more popular sub forums but it sucks for hobbies and more niche topics.
this post was submitted on 12 Apr 2025
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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.
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- 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
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I never though of it like this. But I like thinking of it this way. I am excited to watch lemmy grow though. I have faith that it will go and become a lot more popular. At that time, it will be nice to have more niche communities that are active.
Same! Lemmy is one of my favourite places on the internet and it's comfy to me. I'm also excited to watch it grow and become more popular! 😃
I'm also enjoying participating in forums I would never touch in any other medium. I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.
I find the people that I disagree with have much better points, with significantly fewer radicals, idiots or crusaders.
Honestly, it gives me hope.
My best experiences online have been as part of smaller communities where you can actually know and recognize other people. I see people commenting on threads and I can remember them talking in a different thread (or multiple threads). So it is much easier to know 'ok that guy is touchy about this thing but is otherwise a decent person' and not treat everyone like a 1-dimensional character.
Ugh the crusaders are the worst, they're just nasty
I find the people that I disagree with have much better points
Yeah same. I've had many more educational moments on Lemmy, in both directions, than I ever did in 10 years on Reddit
The opportunities for discussions and such is fun, but I miss the memes from Reddit. Lemmy is almost painfully unfunny.
I'm just happy that I dont have to scroll through dozens of puns before I get to the first coherent post.
Le this narwhal bacon midnight that's what she said doggo.
It is nice to not have to doomscroll too much in Lemmy.
Even more, it's nice that you couldn't if you tried. this is why i left reddit and came over here. Some good memes, some good posts, some nice comments, then in 15 minutes you are out of stuff and you naturally put your phone down. Perfection
Comment quality is also very well balanced...
it is nice having Enough content
Just be aware that there are many haters here too. A few days ago I posted a positive message about the EU and.... oh my God... what a wave of negativity and hate I get. It was just like we - in the EU - are now living under the authoritarian regime of the EU. My reaction was.... I'm out of here, so I'm not in that community anymore. I hoped that Lemmy was a more "positive" community, but that seems to be a naive world view. There will always be haters and they are everywhere.
I find that the EU has much better representation on Lemmy vs Reddit.
The word youre looking for is „russian-american trolls”
The EU is neither a Regime, noir Authoritative. It is our current best way to never repeat the stuff that happened during the cold war in the USA by requiring everything to be open and accessible to the public. The EU is literally what you shape it to be. If you have a problem with what kind of laws the EU is passing, you have a problem with the people voting, not with the system itself.
There is a lot of unelected entities persuading governments. Germany for instance was going green with solar and wind as their central bank shut down pro carbon funding, yet they imported Russian energy as a backstop as they shut down their nuclear reactors.
That kind of unelected Davos influence can cause permanent harm to a country, as their energy prices are 3 times higher than the US now as they burn lignite, leading to deindustrialization as they try to compete with China in EV. They also want to censor climate misinformation, as they attempt to put in censorship laws.
https://climate.ec.europa.eu/eu-action/climate-disinformation_en
They are also rushing in the CBDC for October, when they created laws telling corporations to track their emissions its pretty clear where that's headed as far as carbon quotas.
Yes, but these are unwanted laws passed by EU. These laws are not integrated into the EU itself. Yes, its a fucking joke that our democracy still does not have a good way of kicking out all the unwanted Nazis, but it dosent mean that the system needs to be destroyed (like the bots are saying). It just means that we need to expand the system more.
I would argue germany is going right because its pretty much 1938 again here. I mean, in the alternate world of the AfD these fuckheads are talking about how they would have won the election if the „Pedophile lobby” hadn't brainwashed everyone with their Woke mind virus. Like, I might as well just take way too much of my meds again and see what I dream during my trip and these fuckheads would believe it as long as I say Heil Hitler at the end.
They also want to censor climate misinformation
Also yes, they are literally setting themselves up for a fascist takeover with those laws, but I would argue that's the price you pay when you implement democracy and then try to fight fascism with authoritarism instead of offering quality education.
So since the 4th Reich is already coming, next time we should actually not just quit at killing the Nazis in 1961
I do agree with all of your comment. I am left wondering if this is just the end result of fiat currency debasement, leading to decades of debt accrual, and now higher interest rates due to aging global demographics; a phenomenon most central banks have publications on.
Which is something Ray Dalio talks a lot about, maybe this populism and divide is just a symptom of a larger problem. Germany does do unsustainable immigration to help deal with their aging demographics, which could easily lead to unequal asset price inflation and then nationalism/xenophobia.
Then obviously CBDC and an attempt to perform financial repression, since financializing housing to derive new money supply to grow aggregate demand won't work any more.
Where did that happen? I couldn't find the community from your comment history
I think they're referring to the 8 down votes they got on the post where they told people they need to watch a YouTube video
I love this too. I get bored after a while on Lemmy which..is a really good thing. Get some news and memes, and get off.
Them's some good memes huh
I disagree, I'd like a greater variety of topics especially on general conversation communities.
Incan agree with that. I miss the active guitar subs from Reddit. I'm hoping we can revive a few here.
Agreed, I like being able to refresh and see all new content. Does it always interest me? No, but at least I had variety. I'm hoping Lemmy will get there soon, but for now I'll just vote and comment on lemmy and browse reddit without interacting in any way.
Feel free to create more posts!
I'm looking for what others have to say, I'm not that interesting.
I agree. Very much like Reddit in the early days.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
Also, the level of civility and intellect in the comments is relatively high.
Fuck you! No it isn't you moron.
Wow! I want to upvote, downvote and report you at the same time. Kudos!
In the end all i did was leave this lousy comment
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Using a combination of top day, mark read on scroll, and hide read, I regularly reach the end of the internet, and am glad.
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If you really want to test out what part of Lemmy you're actually interested in...
unclick "Show Scores, Show upvotes, Show Downvotes, and Show Upvote %" in your profile settings for a week and report back on what changed for you.
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