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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 best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] [email protected] 131 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Also a demonstration of the true backbone of social media: shitposters.

Unironically. Just look how shitposting pretty much keeps Tumblr alive these days

[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm on these platforms for the shitposts.

The cool/relevant/newsworthy information is just a handy little side bonus.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

PLEASE tell me where to go. !shitposting isn’t cutting it right now and I need my dopamine hits of shit

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I mean lemmyshitposts on Lemmy.world is where I'm seeing the most but I'm new here and don't really know how to write that out.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Type a ! and then the name of the community for autocomplete. I'm not sure if it's implemented properly on all apps yet but that's generally the way. Gives you this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I mean lemmyshitposts on Lemmy.world is where I'm seeing the most but I'm new here and don't really know how to write that out.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Right? I've got the actual news for actual news, really, and the bonus of getting some here is nice but shitposting is where it's at.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memes spreading like some kind of bean virus!

[–] [email protected] 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beanary code travels exceptionally well via fiber networks.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This made me fucking cackle for some reason 😂

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[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Can someone TL;DR the beans? I slept last night and woke up to Lemmy just being beans… wtf.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post about a can of beans yesterday... literally just that. "Here's a can of beans"... since then, the beans have taken over 😅

I think the point of this shower thought is a good one though: despite not being centralized, the beans still spread in a very reddit-like fashion...

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

This is great! This is the kind of wacky behavior that generates personality, community, media coverage, interest and curiosity, As ironic as it is, I think this is a milestone for the fediverse.

It’s also the beginnings of a collective conscious which means the fediverse is inching towards a critical mass of some sort.

I’m pretty sure Reddit back in its frontier days had several wacky trends take over.

Just my opinion but I’m loving it and I think it’s a good thing,

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a great indication when a social network gets large enough to meme. That's why people care and are actively making original content for a change. It's a great sign!

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can’t upvote your shit. Server too overloaded. Another great sign.

Here’s an up arrow to show my support.

⬆️

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

If lemmy.world is too overloaded you can't even vote, that's definitely a sign to create an account on a smaller instance. Best part of Lemmy is you can make an account on a different server and subscribe to all the same content

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TL;DR Mr. Bean fought spez in a 1vs1 cage fight so now bean is the new hero.

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

Did Musk and Zuckerberg do their thing already, or is that still on?

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

Top of all time post on lemmy is now about beans.

this is the post: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/559757

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen nothing about beans what's wrong with me

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Oh sweet child… you’re missing out. The beans got me.

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ideas can be shared over the internets

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks to its nature of being a series of tubes.

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

Tubes containing beans, of course

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Of course. That's the entire reason behind it. To feed the beans!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

As long as the beans can spread, Lemmy is safe

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wait so when this happens on normal sites is it an example of how effective non-federated sites are? This happened on Reddit, Digg, Something Awful...

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yes. Federated sites have a lot more going on under the hood, yet this bean craze was able to spread across all instances in the fediverse without lag or other hiccups. We were all in on the joke as if we were on a non-federated site.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i dont get it, how is it effective 🤔 🤔

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you Sean Bean?

Also, why isn‘t Sean pronounced the same way as bean?

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

Its like a linguistic bomb dropped in our pronunciation tomb, an absolute surprise from the english womb

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yea in fact i unsub from shitpost. Which can no longer be seen if i filter by subscribed, isnt that the same with reddit 🤨

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Yeah if you unsubscribe to a community it definitely won’t show up in the subscribed feed anymore

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think what they mean is the idea spread across instances without lag or other issues.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ohhh could be it then, i'm still new to federation

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah what they mean is that even though the Fediverse is a web of instances, which operate independently, this bean craze still spread just like it would on a single site. Just emphasises the cohesiveness of the Fediverse

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No beans for beehaw.org :(

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Gotta go to beanhaw.org for em

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

I’m a simple man. I see beans, I upvote.

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

Yeah, but beans are the musical fruit. The more you eat, the more you toot. The more you toot, the better you feel. Beans, beans for every meal!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

It's an interesting experiment which also happens to be highly entertaining 😎

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah that makes sense. The title being "how effective the protocols are" made me think it was something really above and beyond. It should have been "show how the protocols are as effective as normal sites".

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Role that beautiful bean footage 🫘 🫘 🫘

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

mean bean memeing machine

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Where can i get those beans?

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

Bean Shitposts? Isn't that that right-wing guy from The Daily Wire?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

I’m just here for the beans

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The bean conjecture

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