1% rule: most people lurk, do you??

Me: 😶‍🌫️

Why you gotta call me out like that? :D

I would be really curious if this was the case prior to the advent of smartphones. Was the ratio the same on early USENET or BBS? It’s so much easier to lurk than participate from a smartphone keyboard.

I'm a lurker. Sometimes a participator. Rarely a creator.

For all the lurkers out there, just comment something, nobody's gonna judge you.

A bit like free-to-plays, where only 1% of players spend money.

I'm finally part of the 1%!

I tend not to post often but I like to comment.

What's the percent that comments?

The people that lurk will not participate and skew the result.

Mostly a creator, back when I used Twitter and Facebook I used it as a write only medium. On the fediverse I try to read some stuff also and participate by commenting and voting.

I have created the Kia Community. As a owner of the car, it's been awesome to find other owners who can share their knowledge & advice on maintenance & driving the car. Invited others in!

Depends on the community. I do comment more than I post.

Do comments count as content? If not, I think that percentage is a bit flawed, because I've read cool discussions here

I don't think I'll ever create content, but I'm happy to try and comment on the stuff you guys create. Thats probably the most I'm capable of.

And only 1% of the 1% contribute meaningful content.

Well, I've never posted (yet), but commented a few times. More than on reddit, certainly! But overall, I do think that rule is going to hold. It creeps up all over the place. At this stage, I think it is just human nature at work and, as such, almost inevitable.

It's Zipf's law, there's no reason to think Lemmy follows a different distribution.

first day here, and it's too early to predict in which direction this will take off. i am hoping to create and post content around day-to-day happenings.

I am a big part a lurker, but I also create content sometimes

Does commenting count as creating content? I always thought of the posts as the content, but maybe I’m thinking about it wrong

My first idea was "uh, interesting - why not do a poll for that?"

And then I noticed that would end up in some kind of lurker-paradox🤔