1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
en.wikipedia.org
a.k.a. the 90–9–1 principle. Does the Fediverse follow this rule, or are there more creators here as early adopters? Are you a creator, a participator or a lurker?
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I'm a lurker, but I'm going to try to participation more.
Yep. Lurker here. In the sense that I upvote but don’t post or create content. I am just not witty enough to make a joke or creative enough to write a long winded content. But I do what I do and I think it’s alright.
The nice thing about this right now is that you don't need to feel witty or creative to post stuff as long as it fits the community you're in. There aren't enough people to compete with for posts to get attention, that's the main attraction to smaller social media environments: you feel like you matter more.
Yep, with low quantity of posts and how Lemmy sorts by default, just commenting random shit on posts you like is helping.
I'd wager most posters also just repost content rather than make original content. I post often to c/undertale_deltarune but it's just fanart made by others (with credit of course). And I think it goes without saying that most memes are just reposts.
God, the rare few times i put any time and effort into making something it would just get shit on. Lol
This is largely a reddit-discourse problem that evolved over time as the site devolved into witty one-liners and adversarial comments for engagement.
I'm hoping people push back hard against this across various fediverse instances because it just makes the internet a worse place and discourages contributions from would-be posters/commenters.
People should feel excited to post without feeling the need to look over their post/comment 100 times to pre-emptively guess what all attack angles someone is going to respond to in a post as harmless about liking the way roses smell.
In a threaded site like Reddit or Lemmy, one liners and higher effort comments can coexist. I enjoyed the joking around, sing alongs, even the puns. Then you keep scrolling or collapse the thread and you can get to the more serious replies.
As long as the comments are in good faith or good fun and try to add something, I approve of them.
It was the bad faith stuff, people trying to compete in the victim Olympics (not saying that victims shouldn't speak up, I mean the people who are just looking for the next thing to be offended about), and attention whoring that I didn't like. Also the people obsessed with tying every conversation back to what group of people they hate or their political position or the political position they hate. Though I guess on the bright side, those ones did make me feel better about the possibility the world will end soon.
I felt the same on reddit. So far lemmy seems more positive
I dunno, the bar is already pretty high. Your content has to be at least as interesting as beans to stand a chance.
I am a talentless fool posting nonsense, don't let your lack of wit or creativity hold you back!
Exactly. Just fart into the wind like the rest of us.
You don't have to be any of those things. Post what you want where you think it should go. I post all the time.
Post pics, post questions. Post news articles. Long as your posting. But comments count to me any to.
On reddit I mostly just upvoted stuff and commented on posts every now and then, but here I'm trying to talk more. Even created a niche community. Coming up with the words to speak about something is difficult, specially as a I'm not an English native speaker, but it's worth it to help lemmy grow
I was like that on Reddit, but that was partly because it’s SO heavily trafficked and there are so many comments within any given post that you either have to be in at the start or make a popular post to have any effect upon discussion. And by “discussion” I mean more using a loudspeaker: there’s little meaningful back and forth, just presentations.
Smaller communities allow for more forum-like interaction.
There were even those graphs showing the common times posts that stay at the top were written for different subreddits, but it was usually the time people were waking up in the US.
you're doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?
I gotta pee
I'm sorry sir, but based on this post activity I'm going to need you to turn in your lurker badge immediately.
Are you a lurker if you comment?
I sure hope not lol
I'll lurk on your content.
I think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.