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The real lurkers don't even register.

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

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

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

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.

I comment a lot more here than Reddit

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

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'm the 99%. Often I write something in the text field but then decide not to post it because I think it's too dumb or not original enough.

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.

I'm a creator on certain instances and participator/lurker in some others. I'm mostly posting events happening in my city. Discussion is sparse right now but I figure it's better to have sparse conversation than NO conversation.

FInally, something I'm in the 1% of.

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

It feels a lot more active here than in reddit at least. In reddit it was common to have posts with 5k+ upvotes and less than 100 comments.

Was always a lurker on Reddit, now I’m an instance admin lol so I sort of have to comment and post often.

It feels way more a community on Lemmy though so I’m much more active than I ever was on Reddit I love it!

Just a lurker for now

I lurk 99% of the time and post 1% of the time

Im a predator rrrrrrr

This isn't the 1% rule I've heard of 😂

All I can say is I am grateful there are fewer users on Lemmy. It's nothing like Reddit. There's less garbage to sort through. So, one percent of a smaller user population definitely makes a difference in my Lemmy life. I lurk less here than I did on Reddit, mostly because I don't have to scroll through crap as much. There's still crap, just less crap.

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

I create stuff but I’m too afraid to share it with people online because no one wants have someone’s YouTube video shoved at them. Except I also tend to write long, pointless comments like this one, so I guess I am a creator.

I'm a contributer! I've posted cute puppy pics, a frog I saw, and an example of chatGPT cleaning up OCR text.

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 :)

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 :)

Was a lurker before I came to lemmy, trying to change that! I just don't think of things to say.

I'm normally a lurker but I try to contribute stuff for the sake of the fediverse.

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.

Part of the reason is that those 1% are just the people forwarding articles the first microsecond they are out, and if you don't check yourself and submit like a normal person would, your post will get buried and ignored, or worse, you will just get accused of duplicating to farm karma. Sometimes by karmawhores just trying to brigade out the competition and get material to feed their own karma addiction.