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?

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      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.

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        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.

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          Yep, with low quantity of posts and how Lemmy sorts by default, just commenting random shit on posts you like is helping.

      • Fanfic Galore@lemmy.world
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        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.

      • Cmot_Dibbler@lemmy.ml
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        God, the rare few times i put any time and effort into making something it would just get shit on. Lol

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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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        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.

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        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

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      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.

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        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.

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    Definitely a lurker. I rarely have anything I want to show off, and I like reading other people’s opinions and content.

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    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.

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      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.

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              Absolutely! There are many bots designed to provide useful services and improve the functionality of online communities. Some bots can help moderate content, others can help handle community engagement, and some even provide educational content or useful information related to specific topics. However, they have no personal agenda or feelings as they operate based on the algorithms and instructions given in their programming. Hence, whether a bot is good or bad can often be subjective and based on the way they’re programmed and used in the community.

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        cool idea! reminds me of MSTK3, maybe with less sarcasm ;)

        I love live sport threads, I’ll try and catch a movie thread sometime

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    Better than having me contribute garbage content and drowning out good content with my garbage. I’ll post when I have something worth posting

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    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.

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      Same. I’m really putting myself out there, writing this comment! But it’s good for engagement.

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        Y’all should be proud of yourself, lurking is just so much comfier. Everyone trying it’s best tho and we should keep up the engagement.

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      Exactly where I am as well.

      I’m not interesting/talented enough to generate content, but I’ll do my best until more interesting and talented folks start to fill this place with better content.

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      Same, I’m a habitual lurker. But something about the fediverse makes me feel like slightly interacting…

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        because reddit was a firehose of low-effort posts. A lot of times if you don’t reply quick enough your post gets buried under 100 other witty puns and nobody ever reads it.

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        It’s because corporate propaganda doesn’t get spammed at your from meta or wherever to waste your time and make you angry about random shit. You have a chance to see real human content about relevant things to yourself!

        https://lemmy.world/post/1179031

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      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.

      • XiELEd@lemmy.fmhy.ml
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        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).

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        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).

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      My favourite sub to comment has not made the move, come on boxing fans, mainly lurk on most posts

      • MrCrankyBastard@lemmy.world
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        Engagement is not a bad thing. Some creators need the dopamine hit of feedback. As an infrequent poster of super niche nature, I relate intensely. I just don’t have any current written or spoken content to put out right now.

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    The rule doesn’t apply to early adopters, due to the self-selection effect.