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

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

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

I'm a lurker. Because idk what to say most of the time

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

I 99% lurk, 9% participate, and 1% post.

The question seems to imply that this ratio is problematic, but it is in fact fine.

There this sense now that “being a creator” has intrinsic value, but this value is an artifact of platforms that exploit its users creations. So much so that we now have an immense amount of low quality fast food grade, in fact toxic, content. Content pollution.

So, whatever the ratio is. If you want to post post, if you want to comment comment, if you want to lurk lurk.

As long as we are all enjoying the experience, who cares?

How do people like I fit in? People who comment a lot and occasionally post stuff.

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 trying my hardest. I've never created a sub but now I'm creating communities, making add-ons and trying to post. Freedom here of corporate interests is awfully nice. The fediverse is expanding but we're already seeing contracting due to the influx in early June... we definitely had community sprawl. However that was expected. Many communities are doing great! It's great to see!!!

I only say something if I have something to say. And the larger platform gets, the harder it gets to be heard.

I'm almost always a lurker, but I feel like there's a difference when it comes to how participation occurs in fediverse communities versus the majority of mainstream social media platforms. It seems that many people here are genuinely interested in creating a space for quality discussion and healthy communities which motivates me to interact, whereas it's hard to feel like anything you come across is organically presented to you on platforms that are profit driven that aim to be as addicting as possible. All forms of social media have issues imo but this is it in one of the most accessible and least gameified, corpritizied forms

I'm mostly a lurker, pretty rarely commenting and posting even less, but I'm trying to be more active on lemmy. I just don't feel like I ever have anything interesting to contribute to any discussion.

I guess I was a lurker until just now when I made my account. This is literally my first post on my lemmy.world account.

Look at you, getting us antisocial lurkers to reply. You clever girl, you. ;)

I've historically been a lurker because I'm too lazy to comment most of the time. However, I've been trying to participate on Lemmy more than I did on Reddit in an effort to boost the fediverse and really turn this into the Reddit replacement that I want it to be.

Folks want to see an active community.

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

I comment a lot more here than Reddit

I'll start actually posting things when my favorite communities jump ship from Reddit. Until then I'll just lurk while occasionally commenting.

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.

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

I'm a creator on certain instances and participator/lurker in some others. I'm mostly posting events happening in my city. Discussion is sparse right now but I figure it's better to have sparse conversation than NO conversation.

Just a lurker for now

I'm normally a lurker but I try to contribute stuff for the sake of the fediverse.

I am an NPC and proud of it

All I can say is I am grateful there are fewer users on Lemmy. It's nothing like Reddit. There's less garbage to sort through. So, one percent of a smaller user population definitely makes a difference in my Lemmy life. I lurk less here than I did on Reddit, mostly because I don't have to scroll through crap as much. There's still crap, just less crap.

That's why even the measly drop of 3.5% of Reddit's usage may well be significant. It certainly seems that lots of those 10% were the ones leaving.

This is the only 1% that I'm happy to be a part of 💪💪💪💪

I participate in discussion, but I rarely start threads.

I'm shy

It depends on the platform. For YouTube that's definitely true, but not for Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, Mastodon, Lemmy or Threads. If It's easier to create content for those platforms, users will create content for those platforms.

I used to be a 99% lurker back during reddit era but I do comment on lemmy if that counts.

Maybe part of what makes TikTok so powerful, how it categorizes videos in an addicting way, is that it turns the lurkers into contributors/voters by using watch time as a proxy for voting.