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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)
this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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Finally, I'm a one percenter.
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!
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.
It's Zipf's law, there's no reason to think Lemmy follows a different distribution.
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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.
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I am a big part a lurker, but I also create content sometimes
Why you gotta call me out like that? :D
I tend not to post often but I like to comment.
I'd say partway between participator and lurker. Sometimes I just don't really have a lot to say.
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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🤔
The only 1% I will ever be a part of 😅
And only 1% of the 1% contribute meaningful content.
I'm a lurker. Sometimes a participator. Rarely a creator.
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.
Do comments count as content? If not, I think that percentage is a bit flawed, because I've read cool discussions here
1% content (posts), 9% comments, and 90% lurkers is how it's broken out
OK, I won't lie, I hear this all the time but I'm not convinced it's true.
Are there any real statistics on it which account for bit accounts? Like, if reddit claimed that 99% of its users don't make content, my immediate thought would be "how many users are real people and how many are bots?"
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