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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 most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

Rules

  1. All posts must be showerthoughts
  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
  3. No politics
    • If your topic is in a grey area, please phrase it to emphasize the fascinating aspects, not the dramatic aspects. You can do this by avoiding overly politicized terms such as "capitalism" and "communism". If you must make comparisons, you can say something is different without saying something is better/worse.
    • A good place for politics is c/politicaldiscussion
    • If you feel strongly that you want politics back, please volunteer as a mod.
  4. Posts must be original/unique
  5. Adhere to Lemmy's Code of Conduct

If you made it this far, showerthoughts is accepting new mods. This community is generally tame so its not a lot of work, but having a few more mods would help reports get addressed a little sooner.

Whats it like to be a mod? Reports just show up as messages in your Lemmy inbox, and if a different mod has already addressed the report the message goes away and you never worry about it.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I think the bot was already down before the blackout. I remember trying to set a !remind me and nothing happened. Then I read somewhere that the bot was now offline.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

No, it's still online. I just checked, and I/RemindMeBot is still commenting.

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

Will it still work after the API changes though? I'm assuming whomever runs that bot doesn't want to pay through the ass to continue posting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

I think Reddit made exemptions for bots but don't quote me on that

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

Maybe it was sub specific then…

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

No, it actually was down for a bit. It couldn't find new comments once PushShift's access to Reddit was cut off (but it could still remind you of stuff it knew about before PushShift went down), so the dev started frantically writing code to fix the issue.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/RemindMeBot/comments/13jostq/remindmebot_is_now_replying_to_comments_again/

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

Comments starting with "!remind me" are automatically removed in some subreddits, maybe that was the issue.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I got a reminderjust as the blackouts started