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.
Yep, with low quantity of posts and how Lemmy sorts by default, just commenting random shit on posts you like is helping.
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
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 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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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.
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.
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
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’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 sure hope not lol
I’ll lurk on your content.
I think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.
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So that cat is the 1%?
My cat acts like she is the 1%
We need to seize the means of purrduction
The one purrcent
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: [email protected]
Fun idea! Would love to participate at some point if the timing works out.
Same
Time to contribute to a platform that I can believe in.
Me too, keep it up 🤘
Same here.
Same here. Been trying to find interesting content I can contribute to help the community. On Reddit it was all about finding someone who already said what I was going to say and upvoting or commenting.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.
I’m a lurker. Because idk what to say most of the time
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
Is this a trick to get lurkers to post? lol I post occasionally but mostly lurk
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This is where apps need to pick up the “slack” imo. Let me make something like a multi-community where to me, the user, I’m just clicking on games but in the background it’s amalgamating c/[email protected], , c/[email protected] c/[email protected], etc.
Let me configure which communities populate this collection of communities and in a perfect world present to me, the app user, a combined-looking post for links that are the same across instances.
Example, if c/games and c/pcgaming have a link post pointing to the same link, don’t duplicate the threads in my collection of communities aggregate, just show comments from each thread under a single post on my end.
This seems like an inevitable QoL improvement, I’ve seen so many comments pining for it. A bunch of apps are getting ready to hit the App Store, can’t wait to try them and see them evolve
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i wondered about that too, though people seem to be finding the communities and federation seems to be doing its job. it’s nice seeing users from other servers actively participating. only time will tell whether it’s sustainable but i think slow and steady growth is a-ok for real community building
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From a lifetime of small message boards It’s easier to drive engagement in smaller groups. If there’s less overall exhaustion with the basics in any niche, splitting the new members is a good way to keep differentiated material. Also growing communities can end up boxing out their regulars. It might be hard to get started, but the small communities tend to be resilient at some point, they just migrate service to service.
Most of the people who moved here were especially motivated to overcome the barriers to entry to, so I’m not sure the numbers still hold.
I’m a lurker until I get called out like this
Now I feel the urge to comment
