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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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[–] HulkSmashBurgers@reddthat.com 22 points 1 year ago (3 children)

If you're on one of the bigger instances (lemmy.world for example) use https://lemmyverse.net/ to pick a smaller, less crowded instanceto call home.

I created an account on reddthat.com earlier today, and it's way less laggy than lemmy.world (my initial instance).

Hopefully in time lemmy gains functionality thatmakis account backup/porting easy so moving instances in nbd.

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Or even simpler, a feature that lets you aggregate history, posts, comments and subscriptions from multiple instances in a transparent way.

Sort of a meta-account / fedacount that tells all Lemmy instances that accounts a, b, c, and d are all the same user.

[–] thelsim@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t that kind of go against the idea of federation? I don’t know if it’s worth compromising on.

[–] oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

aggregating so many different cats community into one feed is a dream🤩🐱.

Right now i subscribe to 5 different technology@, but if i could create a custom community set according to my preferences then i could see all those 5 in one layout, without breadmaking and other contents breaking them up. the choice now is all posts from all communities or only one specific community.

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

aggregating so many different cats community into one feed is a dream🤩🐱

I can completely understand that :)
Maybe an option to make your own collections of communities? A function on the client side where you can apply tags, or something like that?

[–] elfin8er@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Lemmy at least needs a feature like Mastodon to allow you to migrate your accounts to another instance.

[–] Sgp1986@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

So to move instances you have to create a new account there, right?

[–] Badass_panda@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yes -- I've got copies of my username on several different instances