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 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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              Absolutely! There are many bots designed to provide useful services and improve the functionality of online communities. Some bots can help moderate content, others can help handle community engagement, and some even provide educational content or useful information related to specific topics. However, they have no personal agenda or feelings as they operate based on the algorithms and instructions given in their programming. Hence, whether a bot is good or bad can often be subjective and based on the way they’re programmed and used in the community.

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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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      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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      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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        Content for the sake of content is pretty bad too, so don’t force yourself. Conversely, you also don’t have to force yourself to be silent (which other people and I felt on Reddit).

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        Content for the sake of content is pretty bad too, so don’t force yourself. Conversely, you also don’t have to force yourself to be silent (which other people and I felt on Reddit).

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

      • MrCrankyBastard@lemmy.world
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        Engagement is not a bad thing. Some creators need the dopamine hit of feedback. As an infrequent poster of super niche nature, I relate intensely. I just don’t have any current written or spoken content to put out right now.

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    I’m primarily a lurker. I’ve been trying to be better about participating lately because I’d like to help the fediverse grow and be a meaningful online meeting place.

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    I mean…creating stuff takes work. Even commenting is a lot harder than mindlessly scrolling memes. My head hurts now.

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    I lead a mostly boring life. And the interesting parts would invade more privacy more than I care to expose. I’d love to post content. But I know better than to let too much of myself out. I already expose too much as is, but it can be worse. And nothing good comes from that.

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      Lol same, I don’t have any AITA/relationship advice/TIFU stories ready to go. I don’t make enough waves to post to most things. I was actually trying to think of questions for asklemmy because it’s all a bit dead but I don’t want to know anything! XD

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        Then ask about that! “How do I cultivate a better sense of curiosity?” or even “Ask Lemmy, what should I ask?”

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      Nothing wrong with a “boring” life either. If anything, a “boring” life is probably a good thing lol.

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        Yup, boring lives are a goal to strive for in our world. That means financial stability with not many serious issues going on.

        Goddamn I want my life to be as boring as possible.

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      Sometimes I think about posting pictures of our cats in a cat subreddit, but that’s too much for me.

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        That was about the extent for me. Made one post on a less common cat sub. Got more attention than I anticipated and never posted again. Lol

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      It’s ok to have a boring life, I think it’s worth examining why that is felt to be as issue. we’ve been so conditioned by social media to project otherwise

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        To be fair, I don’t necessarily feel poorly about it being a boring life. I just don’t feel that it would be enough interest to others to share. And then the private side of me refuses to as well. Lol

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

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    Consider the opposite. Every single person on the planet making 10 posts per day. It would be like Facebook on super meth.

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      Lurkers by definition have no impact, besides their potential to eventually become a creator/participant. Having a high ratio of voters/commenters to creators is more important to surface quality content.

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      On super meth, we would’ve needed volunteers to TL:DR; everything. On /r/stims, the comment section tends to be quite lengthy