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’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.
I’ll lurk on your content.
you’re doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?
I gotta pee
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?
Fair, but for lemmy to truly take off, people need to be actively posting and commenting. If people don’t have interest in that, lurkers won’t come.
Right. It needs to work well for people who like posting and commenting.
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.
Full time lurker. Part time commenter. No time creator.
Same here, I think I posted like two things in my 15 years of Reddit to ask a question but I did comment now and then. I imagine it’ll be similar on Lemmy, as much as it needs content I got nothing to really add.
Content for the sake of content is pretty bad too, so don’t force yourself. Conversely, you also don’t have to force yourself to be silent (which other people and I felt on Reddit).
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
I’m mostly a lurker, pretty rarely commenting and posting even less, but I’m trying to be more active on lemmy. I just don’t feel like I ever have anything interesting to contribute to any discussion.
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.
I’ve commented more here than I did the past 9 years on Reddit. I also created Watch Party, where people can watch a movie together and discuss it in a live thread, similar to sporting events. Starship Troopers was the proof of concept, and it was a fun time. I’m hoping it’ll gain some more traction in the coming months and encourage anyone to check out the pinned “Getting Started” post if you’re interested in hosting a watch party as well.
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using an URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !watch_party@lemmy.world
Good bot.
@ChatGPT@lemmings.world are there good bots?
Absolutely! There are many bots designed to provide useful services and improve the functionality of online communities. Some bots can help moderate content, others can help handle community engagement, and some even provide educational content or useful information related to specific topics. However, they have no personal agenda or feelings as they operate based on the algorithms and instructions given in their programming. Hence, whether a bot is good or bad can often be subjective and based on the way they’re programmed and used in the community.
Good bot.
Also: Good! Bots! This is the first one I’ve seen.
Time to contribute to a platform that I can believe in.
Me too, keep it up 🤘
Depends on the community. I do comment more than I post.
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 a lurker. Sometimes a participator. Rarely a creator.
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.
Do cat & beer pics = “creator”? That’s me.
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.
I don’t know if everyone here knows this rule but I’m 100% sure Steve Huffman doesn’t
Look at you, getting us antisocial lurkers to reply. You clever girl, you. ;)
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!).
Hey, I’m with you here. At least with the gif part.
