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1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 278 points 3 years ago (7 children)

I'm a lurker, but I'm going to try to participation more.

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  • [–] 139 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    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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  • [–] 55 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    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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  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    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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  • [–] 15 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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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