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?
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.
God, the rare few times i put any time and effort into making something it would just get shit on. Lol
I felt the same on reddit. So far lemmy seems more positive
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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’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.
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.
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
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.
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.
I’m sorry sir, but based on this post activity I’m going to need you to turn in your lurker badge immediately.
you’re doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?
I gotta pee
I think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.
I’ll lurk on your content.
Are you a lurker if you comment?
I sure hope not lol
I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.
The best thing that any of us can do by far is vote. Even moderately adhering to reddiquette (is there a lemmiquette?) really does improve the community.
Unfortunately on lemmy your vote history is accessible to any admin of any server in the federation. Really hope that’s changed sometime soon.
I don’t think disguising votes will ever happen, by nature of the protocol. Everything on Lemmy has to be verifiable. If votes are anonymous, you can have federated servers that run bots just to flood upvotes and you’d have no way to prove that the vote is unique. The transparency is a feature, not a bug.
Personally I’m a fan. On Reddit, your upvotes were logged as well, but they were only visible to the admins. Here, there’s way more admins. So just be careful when upvoting your unicorn bukake fetishes if you’re embarrassed about it.
Then why close it to admins? Just make vote history public, period. And make it very clear that everyone can see it.
The biggest problem that I have with it currently is that the vast, vast majority of lemmy users, whether it continues to grow or not, will not know about it. And many of them will use usernames that are identifiable, thinking that as long as they don’t say anything controversial, they can’t get into hot water with their govt/church/family/whatever.
just be careful when upvoting your unicorn bukake fetishes if you’re embarrassed about it
Sorry but this is just trying to trivialize a very real issue. If this is ever going to be a place for serious discussion and not just memes, puns, and repetitive jokes, then we shouldn’t dismiss real privacy concerns by acting like anyone who has them is just embarrassed of their silly fetish.
Same here. Been on lemmy for a week and this is my first comment so far.
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One of the main reasons I never posted on Reddit was that it always seemed like everything I would want to post was already posted. I’ve made one or two posts here already since the communities are so small/new that things haven’t been posted yet.
This definitely feels like it’s a part of it, 100%. The feeling that you have to force yourself to be unique on Reddit because of how saturated it was.
Same unfortunately, although I aspire to have more to share
I’m a lurker. Because idk what to say most of the time
Is this a trick to get lurkers to post? lol I post occasionally but mostly lurk
Better than having me contribute garbage content and drowning out good content with my garbage. I’ll post when I have something worth posting
Major lurker. Usually don’t even comment. Trying to comment more here, though.
Hello and welcome! :)
Same here. Def want to see all these communities grow.
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The rule doesn’t apply to early adopters, due to the self-selection effect.
I 99% lurk, 9% participate, and 1% post.
The question seems to imply that this ratio is problematic, but it is in fact fine.
There this sense now that “being a creator” has intrinsic value, but this value is an artifact of platforms that exploit its users creations. So much so that we now have an immense amount of low quality fast food grade, in fact toxic, content. Content pollution.
So, whatever the ratio is. If you want to post post, if you want to comment comment, if you want to lurk lurk.
As long as we are all enjoying the experience, who cares?
How do people like I fit in? People who comment a lot and occasionally post stuff.
If you follow OP’s link, the wiki suggests another rule that I think is more accurate. The 1–9–90 rule. 1% create new content, 9% (including you and me) contribute, and 90% lurk.
What did you do on your last platform
(prb not the best person to help you as i lerked, and then just blew up commenting 14 times in 10 hrs lol)
You fit in great! 😀
I only say something if I have something to say. And the larger platform gets, the harder it gets to be heard.
I usually just figure I am just lazy. Commenting seems much easier than creating a meme haha
True. On reddit if a popular post was over 4 hours old I didn’t even attempt to comment.
Trust me, I have zero worth to post anyways. And even if I did, someone else would have posted it well before I had chance.
Not to mention my views are often not agreed with (GIF is pronounced with a hard G and I will die on this hill!).
I’m trying my hardest. I’ve never created a sub but now I’m creating communities, making add-ons and trying to post. Freedom here of corporate interests is awfully nice. The fediverse is expanding but we’re already seeing contracting due to the influx in early June… we definitely had community sprawl. However that was expected. Many communities are doing great! It’s great to see!!!
ditto. i created a community because i had no idea if it was coming back on reddit.
I just subbed to your community. I’m over 30!
awesome!
Same, I historically am mostly a commentor, I posted very rarely on Reddit, and realistically every community I wanted was already built on Reddit.
Here I’m trying to build some communities up that didn’t exist with I got here. I don’t particularly love being a moderator, it hasn’t been so bad on here so far, but I could definitely see wanting to hand off moderation responsibilities or at least add to the “team” as some of my communities get bigger (just based on my history with being a moderator, I hate to be the bad guy).
Maybe part of what makes TikTok so powerful, how it categorizes videos in an addicting way, is that it turns the lurkers into contributors/voters by using watch time as a proxy for voting.
