Technology

I think there is a bit of a trend with social websites where initially a large amount of the original active user-base is involved in content creation, but whether through gradual growth or an "eternal September" event (I have seen both first-hand), a large influx of users generally attracts more consumers than producers. Right now I think the Fediverse is still fairly niche despite how long it has been around for, so we have a larger share of creators compared to consumers. I try and participate in making stuff where I can :)

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 :)

Hey, I posted one whole cat picture. I'm a contributor.

That's why even the measly drop of 3.5% of Reddit's usage may well be significant. It certainly seems that lots of those 10% were the ones leaving.

I’ve been a long time lurker on other social media platforms, but I’ve started to try and contribute more since I’d like to see communities I like succeed. Maybe then I can go back to lurking

I think right now, there are relatively more creators and contributors. The platform is still pretty new and I think most of us here want to see the platform succeed.

I basically never posted anything back on reddit and I would comment sparingly. I have definitely tried to increase my contribution to help prevent things from being empty.

I have even taken to posting articles in [email protected], which is now starting to see more contribution from other users, especially after 1 July.

Thanks for sharing. I would also be interested if this reflects Lemmy. 1% would be higher than I suggested to be honest.

I don't know if everyone here knows this rule but I'm 100% sure Steve Huffman doesn't

This is the only 1% that I'm happy to be a part of 💪💪💪💪

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.

I'm shy

I am a lurker but I'm getting tired of fediverse meta posts and want to see stuff like I saw in my r3Ddit feed so... Be the change I want to see in the world, I guess?

I’m a light participator. I’m looking for a community to call home, but I’m not highly social, so I don’t comment a ton. Maybe once I find the right communities to subscribe to, but for now I mostly browse all looking for new appealing communities, and comment where it might add value.

I participate in discussion, but I rarely start threads.

I am mostly lurking because I need to take the time to better understand the visibility of voting and commenting. Not that I want to be a jerk and get away with it, I've just seen bits and pieces about how user actions are not as obfuscated as they were on reddit, and I want to understand what that means in practice

I 100% lurk. In fact this is my first comment even though I've been using it since the time that other site started their BS with the api fees.

It's sad I have to state which site I'm talking about when I say "other site started their BS"

I‘m a particilurker xD

Never been called out like this. Oh well. I think I'm still a lurker unless I'm called out.

I used to be a 99% lurker back during reddit era but I do comment on lemmy if that counts.

I'm a lurker naturally but I'm invested in growing the community here so I'm trying to post and comment like crazy

I never post, but I do comment.