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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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Even in the hay day of online discussion forum websites you'd have trolls that derail threads and bring nastiness to the forefront.
Good moderation, clearly defined rules and quality of content are key- contributes to a quality forum.
The karma farming and bridgading of Reddit is not missed here. Now if we can get some of the niche forums more population.
The Lemmy homepage could do a random "Community Focus" where one random community is pinned for a day or 2 - or something like that. Just so people notice some of the tinier communities. I joined many when I 1st signed up but now my feed is full, so I hardly look for new ones anymore.
Great idea! Also I noticed that sports communities are mainly bots. Really wonder just how many actively posting users there are on Lemmy?
create any you find missing. you are automatically the moderator. boring unpaid responsibility which you can trash if it starts to irritate