this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2023
488 points (91.1% liked)

Showerthoughts

29565 readers
1417 users here now

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.

Rules

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

At least that’s my calculation right now

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 101 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I'm not sure about raw numbers but Lemmy feels like home now and Reddit's content is significantly worse so it's still a win for me

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I didn’t look back after moving here. The only thing where Reddit still excels is its old content that you bump into when searching stuff on Google and the presence of official corporate accounts/ subreddits.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I went back by accident by following a search result, and was still logged in. Had a notification. It was a reply to a comment I'd made about a month prior, asking a question. In the comment I even attempted to clarify that it was a genuine question with no judgement attached, and I got a couple answers at the time.

Anyway, found myself back on Reddit with this belated comment reply. The person went on a whole rant related to my question, didn't answer it of course, but just went off on one accusing me of nefarious motives.

It's weird to think back on how stressful it was to interact over there for fear of being misinterpreted and drawing out the crazies. If something like that happens here I just block them and go on with my day safe in the knowledge that the nice folks have them massively outnumbered. And hence my nearly 2000 comments here over two accounts in the space of about six weeks...oh my.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Man I remember the same thing. I mentioned that my cats deworming pills are relatively expensive (as in expensive for a simple mass produced pill) and some person went on a rant how there are so many animals that are disregarded by their owners and what not. It’s strange.

I didn’t mention that I’m not buying them for her or that I’m avoiding other expenses.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (5 children)

speaking of searching stuff, how does lemmy work in that space?

Like would I ever find this comment if I search it on Google?

"Alibaba DQC Matrix Peanut Butter"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

I tried searching for Kbin Enhancement Suite posts on Kbin via Google... Guess what? All the results came back for RES for Reddit! On Reddit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

There is a search engine being developed specifically for Lemmy for just this kind of thing: search-lemmy.com

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Zero results so far. Will be interesting to see how long it takes to index. EDIT: 24 hour later indexed (see my other comment)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

this is on Google? then I guess Google Indexes fediverse?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Makes sense, websites and internet and such.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yep. And 24 hour index time (perhaps even faster) isn't half bad.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I believe there's people already working on that, but no idea how they're doing these days

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

All the cool people moved over here

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It definitely does yea. I haven't been on plebbit outside of a random search result for something I could not find otherwise.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Will the real Fry please stand up? We have a healthy amount of Fry avatars on Lemmy and I'm here for it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

For me reddit content was pretty shitty for the last couple of tears. Like 10 years ago I could scroll the front page and find everything pretty funny/interesting and that made me want to discuss the topics with the people there. In the last years, the front page become pretty dull to me, I was just going to reddit only to specific subs.

Lemmy feels now to what reddit felt 10 years ago.