1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk.
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?
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?
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
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 dunno, the bar is already pretty high. Your content has to be at least as interesting as beans to stand a chance.
I dunno, the bar is already pretty high. Your content has to be at least as interesting as beans.
I am a talentless fool posting nonsense, don't let your lack of wit or creativity hold you back!
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.
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.
I'm sorry sir, but based on this post activity I'm going to need you to turn in your lurker badge immediately.
I think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.
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'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.
Also guilty. I guess the first step was admitting I had a problem. But I’m working on it. One reply at a time.
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
Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people's opinions and content.
Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.
I think that 1% rule is a bigger problem for Lemmy than other platforms, because you have the same communities on multiple instances, making it harder for each community to reach critical mass.
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
Yes, having the option to group similar communities into one entity would be a huge QoL improvement.
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
Having multiple instances which all are able to make the same community isn't a bad thing, it makes things more divers and prevents censorship.
It does get taxed harder by the 1% rule, to get access to all the content you need to join the same community on all instances, other platform that concentrate the content is a single place doesn't have this issue.
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 doing a little posting/commenting to "be the change I want to see" so to speak. If lemmy gets bigger, I will likely return to my lurker ways.
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)