This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
Well, according to data from https://the-federation.info, 26.8% of Fediverse user accounts have commented or posted something in the last month. I'm not sure if I completely trust this wide-reaching dataset but it's something. Lemmy overall at its peak had 18.5% until a flood of bot accounts with no activity appeared on some open-signup servers, now it's at 3%.
Lemmy.world is sitting at 27% active user ratio, beehaw.org at 34.7%, lemmy.ca at 32.3%, lemmy.ml at 12%, sh.itjust.works at 19.2%
For all the lurkers out there, just comment something, nobody's gonna judge you.
Part of the reason is internet commentators are so mean to each other, and many of us users don’t want to be judged by someone? (Although extreme echo chamber is also a bad thing)
Mostly lurker and sometimes participator.
Variants include the 1–9–90 rule (sometimes 90–9–1 principle or the 89:10:1 ratio),[1] which states that in a collaborative website such as a wiki, 90% of the participants of a community only consume content, 9% of the participants change or update content, and 1% of the participants add content.
I've heard mods say it's like that on Reddit: 1% create posts, 9% comment on posts, and the rest lurk. Many people have suggested that the people most likely to leave Reddit because of the recent issues are in that 10% of posters and commentators.
I was def a lurker on reddit. Here I have been trying to post and comment where I can. I don't create art or anything like that, so my submission are mostly memes, discussions in niche instances, and a news article here and there.
Does commenting count as creating content? I always thought of the posts as the content, but maybe I’m thinking about it wrong
I'm a lurker unless something actually impassions me to discuss
Same, I'm a habitual lurker. But something about the fediverse makes me feel like slightly interacting....
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.
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!
Similar thing with me. I wasn’t strictly a lurker, but I also never created a sub, for example — everything already kinda existed.
Here, I’ve started several communities and am trying to grow those. Plus it sometimes feels like it’s up to me to post/comment stuff that would’ve been already on Reddit by the time I got there.
And for now at least, I like kbin’s vibe better than whichever one Reddit had for the past few years. So we’ll see how it goes :)
I posted links on Reddit like 5-10 years ago... Then the power mods showed up, nuked my links for some obscure rule violation, then allowed someone else reposted them minutes later.
I gave up.
Same. I have posted here twice with better luck. Reddit has some weird posting rules. Some I get. Some I think are crap. Now I usually just comment.
*lurk*
I have been way more active on Lemmy than I ever was on "the other place". And I wasn't entirely inactive there either, it was just mostly constrained to niche subs. Here I'm just commenting everywhere and relatively often.
