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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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Do note that I said "vast majority." Would anyone argue that most of Lemmy's user base doesn't consist of ex-Redditors? Weren't there about 1200 people on Lemmy as recently as a few months ago? Lemmy is basically now an open-source subreddit for memes and anti-Reddit brigading, with occasional tech news links from Beehaw. It probably wasn't that before, but that was before.
As for the roots of the platform being communists and socialists, who are more to the left than ex-Redditors, I can't argue that. Reddit is mostly young American liberal democrats, and that's not communism. So I'll take it back.
Really though, I'm unsure why I'm even posting. Maybe it's because the OP's premise seems so ridiculous and reminds me of the kinds of posts I see on Reddit? With posts like this, generally from the young and uninformed, I sometimes get triggered into commenting.