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?
All I can say is I am grateful there are fewer users on Lemmy. It’s nothing like Reddit. There’s less garbage to sort through. So, one percent of a smaller user population definitely makes a difference in my Lemmy life. I lurk less here than I did on Reddit, mostly because I don’t have to scroll through crap as much. There’s still crap, just less crap.
Hey, I posted one whole cat picture. I’m a contributor.
first day here, and it’s too early to predict in which direction this will take off. i am hoping to create and post content around day-to-day happenings.
It’s Zipf’s law, there’s no reason to think Lemmy follows a different distribution.
The real lurkers don’t even register.
It depends on the platform. For YouTube that’s definitely true, but not for Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy or Threads. If It’s easier to create content for those platforms, users will create content for those platforms.
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.
Nothing wrong with a “boring” life either. If anything, a “boring” life is probably a good thing lol.
Yup, boring lives are a goal to strive for in our world. That means financial stability with not many serious issues going on.
Goddamn I want my life to be as boring as possible.
Lol same, I don’t have any AITA/relationship advice/TIFU stories ready to go. I don’t make enough waves to post to most things. I was actually trying to think of questions for asklemmy because it’s all a bit dead but I don’t want to know anything! XD
Then ask about that! “How do I cultivate a better sense of curiosity?” or even “Ask Lemmy, what should I ask?”
quite a meta way of asking a question don’t you think?
can you think of a better way of addressing the situation?
“Ask Lemmy, is it ok to ask about what kind of questions I should ask? Sorry if this question breaks any rules or is too political.”
Sometimes I think about posting pictures of our cats in a cat subreddit, but that’s too much for me.
That was about the extent for me. Made one post on a less common cat sub. Got more attention than I anticipated and never posted again. Lol
It’s ok to have a boring life, I think it’s worth examining why that is felt to be as issue. we’ve been so conditioned by social media to project otherwise
To be fair, I don’t necessarily feel poorly about it being a boring life. I just don’t feel that it would be enough interest to others to share. And then the private side of me refuses to as well. Lol
I’d say partway between participator and lurker. Sometimes I just don’t really have a lot to say.
I used to be a lurker. People can change.
I’m a creator on certain instances and participator/lurker in some others. I’m mostly posting events happening in my city. Discussion is sparse right now but I figure it’s better to have sparse conversation than NO conversation.
I tend to lurk mostly, but I’ve posted here and there when its called for
Now I am in the 1% ?
I am a lurker but I’m getting tired of fediverse meta posts and want to see stuff like I saw in my r3Ddit feed so… Be the change I want to see in the world, I guess?
Be the change I want to see in the world, I guess?
yes! post something today :)
Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.
Lurkers by definition have no impact, besides their potential to eventually become a creator/participant. Having a high ratio of voters/commenters to creators is more important to surface quality content.
On super meth, we would’ve needed volunteers to TL:DR; everything. On /r/stims, the comment section tends to be quite lengthy
En français https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Règle_du_1_%25
Très intéressant.
