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?

  • @Buddahriffic
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    51 year ago

    The new Reddit site was awful if you like browsing and making comments. It really made it apparent that they didn’t want people spending their time doing that and just wanted you to move on to the next post.

    For me, the discussion was the whole point of a site like Reddit. I’d get disappointed after clicking and reading an article from another source and realized there was no comment thread to look at because I didn’t get there from Reddit because I always looked forward to the high quality and insightful things people had to say about it (which was kinda sarcastic regarding Reddit, though there were certainly gemstones in the rough, but might work here).

    Oh and I guess that shows that I’m not really a “creator” since I just realized I could have posted those articles myself to the site if they weren’t already there. 🤷

    • AFK BRB Chocolate
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      31 year ago

      Yeah, in similar to you. In all honesty, I was also a little disappointed when I saw an interesting article posted on Reddit that I had an opinion on, but there were already thousands of comments. I always figured no one would ever get to mine, so there was no point in making one.

      I also wasn’t much for posting new content, but I’ve been trying to do that some here to help things grow.

      • @Buddahriffic
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        31 year ago

        There was a trick to replying to an already popular post, which basically involved picking a comment where replies to that comment were still visible instead of buried behind a button.

        Then just keep your comment relevant and try to add something with it. And don’t be an asshole, or if you can’t manage that, at least try to be a popular kind of asshole, while keeping in mind that what is popular can vary from community to community.

        • AFK BRB Chocolate
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          21 year ago

          Yeah, I did that some, but I always felt weird posting a comment without checking to see if someone else already said it, and I wasn’t going to read 1000 comments.