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

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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.

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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.

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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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I felt the same on reddit. So far lemmy seems more positive

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I am a talentless fool posting nonsense, don’t let your lack of wit or creativity hold you back!

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5 points

Exactly. Just fart into the wind like the rest of us.

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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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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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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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you’re doing it right now! 😀 how does it feel?

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I gotta pee

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I’m sorry sir, but based on this post activity I’m going to need you to turn in your lurker badge immediately.

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Are you a lurker if you comment?

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I sure hope not lol

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I think commenting or even voting counts as participating. In my view, lurking means 0% participation.

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I’ll lurk on your content.

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So that cat is the 1%?

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My cat acts like she is the 1%

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We need to seize the means of purrduction

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The one purrcent

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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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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: !watch_party@lemmy.world

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Good bot.

Also: Good! Bots! This is the first one I’ve seen.

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6 points

Fun idea! Would love to participate at some point if the timing works out.

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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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I fucking love that show, I spent a lot of late nights as a kid cracking up to their commentary. There’s a MST3K channel on Pluto.tv that’s got a decent selection of reruns.

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I love that your maiden voyeurage was Starship Troopers

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Same

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6 points

Time to contribute to a platform that I can believe in.

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5 points

Me too, keep it up 🤘

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2 points

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.

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2 points

Same here.

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Full time lurker. Part time commenter. No time creator.

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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.

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4 points

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

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1 point

Same here, I’ve not created one post here, but I’ve made a lot of comments.

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I admit it: I’m a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.

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