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?
Mostly Lurking as I try and learn the new space, as I get more comfortable I plan on engaging more with the community
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.
I’m terrible with stuff like Discord but I have no issue with forums, somehow
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.
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.
According to the-federation.info, lemmy.world has 92k users, 25k of which were active in the past month. So, yeah, it doesn’t hold true at the moment.
Lurker here. I burrow underground and shoot out spines for AOE damage. Great at choke points and nearly invincible when working under a dark swarm.
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Someone make a Unreal Engine lemstance and I’ll shit post everyday about blueprints being the future of programming and how nanite still doesn’t work with translucent materials
Hey, I posted one whole cat picture. I’m a contributor.
There’s some irony in all the comments that participate in this thread by posting “lurker”
Thanks for sharing. I would also be interested if this reflects Lemmy. 1% would be higher than I suggested to be honest.
Honestly, I wish the lemmy apps were more geared to allow people to lurk rather than having everyone sign up to view content. I’m a lurker who shares posts with people outside of lemmy.
You can see content without an account. Unless it’s NSFW, I guess.
Which apps are allowing you to view content without signing in?
Oh. I’m mainly using the browser for pretty much everything.
I think Memmy, an iOS client that released just today or yesterday, allows you to.
Which apps are you using? I use Liftoff and have four instances added that I regularly browse, but I’m only logged in to two (because I only have accounts on those two). I haven’t had problems browsing or sharing content on the instances I’m not logged into on this app and the links open in browsers just fine without a login wall for people I share with.
memmy and mlem
Initially opening the apps go to a sign in/login page.
Liftoff isnt on the App Store yet for iOS, so cant test.
I’m on Memmy and have never seen a login page through it. I do see the you’re not logged in warning on new communities on instances I’ve never been to before, but that is rarely the situation. I see more of that if I’m on the computer using the browser, but even that is getting less each time.
Ahhh, gotcha, I’m on Android and originally started with Jerboa before moving to Liftoff so I haven’t gotten to try those apps yet. Yeah, that is a weird user-experience design and I’d agree they should try to change that, allowing lurking and easy sharing is an overall more pro-user design that respects our choices to try a platform before giving more info to it.
I used to post a lot of comments on Reddit, but never anywhere else.
I posted more on mastodon than anywhere else
I’m a lurker, but I’m going to try to participation more.
I’ll lurk on your content.
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 think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.
Are you a lurker if you comment?
I sure hope not lol
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.
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 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.
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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.
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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.
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’m sorry sir, but based on this post activity I’m going to need you to turn in your lurker badge immediately.
I mean…creating stuff takes work. Even commenting is a lot harder than mindlessly scrolling memes. My head hurts now.
I‘m a particilurker xD
I mean think of Hollywood or sports. Most people don’t do those things but they do consume it.
