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 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.
I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.
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.
Depends on the community. I do comment more than I post.
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 mean…creating stuff takes work. Even commenting is a lot harder than mindlessly scrolling memes. My head hurts now.
I’m a lurker. Sometimes a participator. Rarely a creator.
Better than having me contribute garbage content and drowning out good content with my garbage. I’ll post when I have something worth posting
Oh my gosh, reddit was bad about that, r/crappydesign is an archive of mild mistakes rather than really funny errors like you see in reddit’s ‘top’ sorting or the YT videos condencing (or not) the content to the best of the best. Id rather crappy design be 30 amazing posts than 3000 eh ones (also: see dead internet theory)
I’ll start actually posting things when my favorite communities jump ship from Reddit. Until then I’ll just lurk while occasionally commenting.
What are some of your favorite communities?
r/Imaginarymaps.
Was always a lurker on Reddit, now I’m an instance admin lol so I sort of have to comment and post often.
It feels way more a community on Lemmy though so I’m much more active than I ever was on Reddit I love it!
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!).
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.
Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.
I’m the 99%. Often I write something in the text field but then decide not to post it because I think it’s too dumb or not original enough.
