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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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I like these federated services being kinda "rough around the edges" (programming.dev)
submitted 1 year ago by ICastFist@programming.dev to c/showerthoughts@lemmy.world
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In part because it reminds me a bit of the old internet, with stuff being spread around everywhere.

Being "harder"* to understand than reddit, twitter or other big companies' services is also a good thing, because people should remember that they have a brain and they should use it.

  • "harder" because not everyone understands the fediverse right away, since usability is extremely similar

PS: ^superscript doesn't work with phrases? at least not on preview^

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[–] klieg2323@lemmy.piperservers.net 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Hey, the speed issue is solely because the instance you're on, Lemmy.world, is way overcrowded. You can resolve this issue by joining a smaller instance or even hosting your own. The best part of Lemmy is you aren't tied to any one server. You can create an account on a different instance/site and never miss a Lemmy post. I'm on my own private instance and have zero issues with loading speed

[–] popemichael@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

That sounds very doable. I'll have to look for a tutorial and work on that next chance that I get.

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

How do I transfer my subscriptions to another server, though? Do you really just have to re-sub to everything all over again?

Because I have so many subs now…

[–] vividspecter@vlemmy.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes that's an annoyance but I would expect support for that in the medium term.

[–] money_loo@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

I made an account on a separate server just to test and it does indeed perform tons better. Just sucks there isn’t some way to “own” your user and download like a fingerprint of it on demand from a server, so you could easily transfer yourself somewhere else.