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.
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
I am a talentless fool posting nonsense, don’t let your lack of wit or creativity hold you back!
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.
you’re doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?
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 think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.
I’ll lurk on your content.
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So that cat is the 1%?
My cat acts like she is the 1%
The one purrcent
We need to seize the means of purrduction
I have been posting and commenting a LOT more than I ever did on Reddit. Some small part of that is a desire to grow the platform and my communities.
Full time lurker. Part time commenter. No time creator.
I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.
me too!
And thats still important
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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.
Same! As an introvert it is not easy though.
This is me too! I can be the quiet type even online. I enjoy sitting back and reading the discussion more than participating. Let’s see if I can break the habit though.
I’m terrible with stuff like Discord but I have no issue with forums, somehow
Also guilty. I guess the first step was admitting I had a problem. But I’m working on it. One reply at a time.
Musicalcactus is a good name!
You might say it was a sharp choice.
I mean…creating stuff takes work. Even commenting is a lot harder than mindlessly scrolling memes. My head hurts now.
I lead a mostly boring life. And the interesting parts would invade more privacy more than I care to expose. I’d love to post content. But I know better than to let too much of myself out. I already expose too much as is, but it can be worse. And nothing good comes from that.
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.
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.
Post music you listen to on [email protected]
Same unfortunately, although I aspire to have more to share
I’m a lurker. Because idk what to say most of the time
Haha, same thing here. Also I think it’s not necessary to write something that is already written in three other comments. So I just upvote.
Worked out ok this time 😀
Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.
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yes it is, did it work?
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I’m a lurker until I get called out like this
Now I feel the urge to comment
