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.
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
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 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.
I’ll lurk on your content.
you’re doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?
I gotta pee
Depends on the community. I do comment more than I post.
I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.
I guess I was a lurker until just now when I made my account. This is literally my first post on my lemmy.world account.
I’m primarily a lurker. I’ve been trying to be better about participating lately because I’d like to help the fediverse grow and be a meaningful online meeting place.
Was always a lurker on Reddit, now I’m an instance admin lol so I sort of have to comment and post often.
It feels way more a community on Lemmy though so I’m much more active than I ever was on Reddit I love it!
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.
Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.
I mean…creating stuff takes work. Even commenting is a lot harder than mindlessly scrolling memes. My head hurts now.
Mostly a creator, back when I used Twitter and Facebook I used it as a write only medium. On the fediverse I try to read some stuff also and participate by commenting and voting.
I’m the 99%. Often I write something in the text field but then decide not to post it because I think it’s too dumb or not original enough.
I’ll start actually posting things when my favorite communities jump ship from Reddit. Until then I’ll just lurk while occasionally commenting.
What are some of your favorite communities?
r/Imaginarymaps.
I used to be a 99% lurker back during reddit era but I do comment on lemmy if that counts.
Absolutely, participate! If Reddit was a huge megalopolis then Lemmy is still a small town. We’re here so early that we have the opportunity to shape how things develop.
I comment a lot on reddit but i feel too shy here
don’t be shy, it’s ok to say hi 👋
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?
I will post as I find communities that align with my interests. I comment where I feel I have something to say. I will lurk elsewhere.
