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I'm a lurker, but I'm going to try to participation more.

I admit it: I'm a lurker 99% of the time. I do partake in the up- and downvoting though.

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

I'm a lurker. Because idk what to say most of the time

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.

I'm a lurker unless something actually impassions me to discuss

I'm a lurker doing a little posting/commenting to "be the change I want to see" so to speak. If lemmy gets bigger, I will likely return to my lurker ways.

Full time lurker. Part time commenter. No time creator.

Major lurker. Usually don't even comment. Trying to comment more here, though.

Better than having me contribute garbage content and drowning out good content with my garbage. I'll post when I have something worth posting

The rule doesn't apply to early adopters, due to the self-selection effect.

Now I feel the urge to comment

I 99% lurk, 9% participate, and 1% post.

The question seems to imply that this ratio is problematic, but it is in fact fine.

There this sense now that “being a creator” has intrinsic value, but this value is an artifact of platforms that exploit its users creations. So much so that we now have an immense amount of low quality fast food grade, in fact toxic, content. Content pollution.

So, whatever the ratio is. If you want to post post, if you want to comment comment, if you want to lurk lurk.

As long as we are all enjoying the experience, who cares?

I'm trying my hardest. I've never created a sub but now I'm creating communities, making add-ons and trying to post. Freedom here of corporate interests is awfully nice. The fediverse is expanding but we're already seeing contracting due to the influx in early June... we definitely had community sprawl. However that was expected. Many communities are doing great! It's great to see!!!

How do people like I fit in? People who comment a lot and occasionally post stuff.

I only say something if I have something to say. And the larger platform gets, the harder it gets to be heard.

Trust me, I have zero worth to post anyways. And even if I did, someone else would have posted it well before I had chance.

Not to mention my views are often not agreed with (GIF is pronounced with a hard G and I will die on this hill!).

Maybe part of what makes TikTok so powerful, how it categorizes videos in an addicting way, is that it turns the lurkers into contributors/voters by using watch time as a proxy for voting.

I'm almost always a lurker, but I feel like there's a difference when it comes to how participation occurs in fediverse communities versus the majority of mainstream social media platforms. It seems that many people here are genuinely interested in creating a space for quality discussion and healthy communities which motivates me to interact, whereas it's hard to feel like anything you come across is organically presented to you on platforms that are profit driven that aim to be as addicting as possible. All forms of social media have issues imo but this is it in one of the most accessible and least gameified, corpritizied forms

Now I am in the 1% ?

i'm usually a lurker because i usually don't have anything important to add to the discussion; i don't really want to leave a lot of empty/useless comments around

I'm mostly a lurker, pretty rarely commenting and posting even less, but I'm trying to be more active on lemmy. I just don't feel like I ever have anything interesting to contribute to any discussion.

I am an NPC and proud of it

I guess I was a lurker until just now when I made my account. This is literally my first post on my lemmy.world account.

I've historically been a lurker because I'm too lazy to comment most of the time. However, I've been trying to participate on Lemmy more than I did on Reddit in an effort to boost the fediverse and really turn this into the Reddit replacement that I want it to be.

Folks want to see an active community.

Look at you, getting us antisocial lurkers to reply. You clever girl, you. ;)

Lurker here. I burrow underground and shoot out spines for AOE damage. Great at choke points and nearly invincible when working under a dark swarm.

I'll start actually posting things when my favorite communities jump ship from Reddit. Until then I'll just lurk while occasionally commenting.

So what is considered lurking? Commenting once in a blue moon or just not commenting anything whatsoever?

I comment a lot more here than Reddit

I posted links on Reddit like 5-10 years ago... Then the power mods showed up, nuked my links for some obscure rule violation, then allowed someone else reposted them minutes later.

I gave up.

Mostly a lurker. Can't think of things that I want to post, yet I love every piece of information that Lemmy (or better said, lemmings) offers. Will try to change that, at least through comments

I wonder how this rule compares to real life interactions between people. Imagine having a conversation with someone and noticing 200 people watching from behind a nearby hedge.

Just a lurker for now

There's some irony in all the comments that participate in this thread by posting "lurker"