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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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  2. The entire showerthought must be in the title
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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (4 children)

On some Mastodon clients you can block hashtags, and on Lemmy you can block communities, so we're already pretty close. To do more would require a lot of self-tagging of posts and not everyone will do that. Or it would require analytics and automatic tagging that may not be accurate and would theoretically be a privacy nightmare.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I can never rely on people to self-tag posts. But tagging communities would be much more manageable and helpful.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Maybe communities should come with default tags. That would make it a lot easier.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

And with apps we can filter text.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Do it like AO3 and enforce only about a dozen mandatory tags, and allow 'choose not to tag' tag if you don't want to tag, and you can choose to filter out the choose not to tag content..