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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. A showerthought should offer a unique perspective on an ordinary part of life.

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[–] InfiniWheel@lemmy.one 125 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

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 44 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.

[–] WoodenBleachers@lemmy.one 12 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

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world 12 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.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 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: !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

[–] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.world 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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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.

[–] chicagohuman@lemm.ee 66 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Memes spreading like some kind of bean virus!

[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 29 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beanary code travels exceptionally well via fiber networks.

[–] AzuleBlade@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This made me fucking cackle for some reason 😂

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[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 49 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.

[–] Ktanaqui@lemm.ee 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...

[–] lenninscjay@lemm.ee 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,

[–] RatzChatsubo@vlemmy.net 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!

[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 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.

⬆️

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

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Cartman@lemmywinks.com 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] zinklog@lemmy.fmhy.ml 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

[–] charlytune@mander.xyz 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] Bushwhack@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

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[–] aport@programming.dev 30 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ideas can be shared over the internets

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks to its nature of being a series of tubes.

[–] Sausage_Mahoney@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Tubes containing beans, of course

[–] DmMacniel@feddit.de 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Strangian@lemm.ee 24 points 1 year ago

As long as the beans can spread, Lemmy is safe

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 23 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...

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 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.

[–] coconutxyz@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

i dont get it, how is it effective 🤔 🤔

[–] Strangian@lemm.ee 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] NochmalBayern@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Have you Sean Bean?

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

[–] Strangian@lemm.ee 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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[–] coconutxyz@lemmy.world 5 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 🤨

[–] Strangian@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

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

[–] Jilanico@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] coconutxyz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] guywithadeathwish@lemmy.world 5 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

[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No beans for beehaw.org :(

[–] amos@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago

Gotta go to beanhaw.org for em

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

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 8 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!

[–] ShustOne@lemmy.one 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".

[–] G59@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

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

[–] CodeMonkeyDance@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Role that beautiful bean footage 🫘 🫘 🫘

[–] z3n0x@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago

mean bean memeing machine

[–] DonDino@mujico.org 6 points 1 year ago

Where can i get those beans?

[–] EmoDuck@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago

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

The bean conjecture

[–] ballzovsteel@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m just here for the beans

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