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1% rule: 1% of users actively create new content, while the other 99% only lurk. (en.wikipedia.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

This is largely a reddit-discourse problem that evolved over time as the site devolved into witty one-liners and adversarial comments for engagement.

I'm hoping people push back hard against this across various fediverse instances because it just makes the internet a worse place and discourages contributions from would-be posters/commenters.

People should feel excited to post without feeling the need to look over their post/comment 100 times to pre-emptively guess what all attack angles someone is going to respond to in a post as harmless about liking the way roses smell.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

In a threaded site like Reddit or Lemmy, one liners and higher effort comments can coexist. I enjoyed the joking around, sing alongs, even the puns. Then you keep scrolling or collapse the thread and you can get to the more serious replies.

As long as the comments are in good faith or good fun and try to add something, I approve of them.

It was the bad faith stuff, people trying to compete in the victim Olympics (not saying that victims shouldn't speak up, I mean the people who are just looking for the next thing to be offended about), and attention whoring that I didn't like. Also the people obsessed with tying every conversation back to what group of people they hate or their political position or the political position they hate. Though I guess on the bright side, those ones did make me feel better about the possibility the world will end soon.