Lurkers - what’s your story?

  • @[email protected]
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    609 months ago

    I AM - Thank you for your service! :-D

    And now as thanks, a picture of a cat for no reason whatsoever - as is tradition!

  • Electric
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    269 months ago

    I simply have very little to contribute.

  • TimeSquirrel
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    8 months ago

    I usually delete over half the comments and posts I make because I keep thinking nobody gives a shit about what I have to say. I’m afraid some troll is going to pop out of nowhere and tell me to go kill myself. Reddit scarred me.

    • Johanno
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      108 months ago

      You should kiss yourself. Pad yourself on the shoulder and tell the trolls to fuck off into the sunrise.

    • @[email protected]
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      68 months ago

      Listen, bucko, you take the post you’ve written, store it in your pocket, and go have a wonderful day.

    • @robocall
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      68 months ago

      don’t delete. you have value.

    • @[email protected]
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      58 months ago

      Never can know if people are interested if you keep deleting things. Take a chance, we are relatively anonymous here.

      Also haters aren’t trolls, nothing wrong with a bit of trolling.

  • @[email protected]
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    189 months ago

    Nothing special man. I just like FOSS but I’m too lazy to make memes myself so I mostly lurk and comment

        • @[email protected]
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          8 months ago

          oh, I didn’t know it worked with emojis 😅

          I just tought it was Voyager doing that because the whole comment was an emoji.

          Edit: Just remembered this also works 👍

          Combining everything:

          👍

  • @[email protected]
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    138 months ago

    I comment a lot but seldom post. As stated a few times, I don’t feel I have much to contribute post-wise

    • Nuggsy
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      58 months ago

      I get that too. It’s a flaw of my character, I guess, that stems from past experience on other social media platforms I’ve used throughout my life.

      But, I’ve been trying, but probably not as much as I could…

  • Zaros
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    128 months ago

    I just browse things for fun, mostly. I rarely have anything important to add, so I rarely even comment.

    I did try making a few memes, but I don’t really have ideas for general memes. I only make memes for specific friends about some very specific thing they or I said or did, and those don’t really fit in here.

  • @Nastybutler
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    118 months ago

    I’m lazy, and just here for the lulz

  • Nexius_Lobster
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    98 months ago

    the disparity between posters and subscribers is larger than expected.

    in the community i moderate, there are just 2 consistent posters (including myself) and about 3000 subs, of which a good 150 seem to be active in total. that’s 0.05 of the aggregate subscribers.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      28 months ago

      Same in my community (FullMoviesOnYoutube). Really not sure why, but I really appreciate the few others who are sharing posts.

  • @francisfordpoopola
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    69 months ago

    I just don’t have the time or interest to comment. I sure as heck can be bothered to follow up on replies.

  • Grayox
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    69 months ago

    I want a time machine to go back in time to teach the crowd in the coliseum the 7 nation army chant so I can hear it being chanted while 2 gladiators go at it.

  • @EnderMB
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    58 months ago

    I see a lot of comments saying that people comment, but I’ll occasionally post videos when I see them come out, get zero responses, and will see the same video on Reddit with thousands of responses. These aren’t small communities either - the videos community on lemmy.world has thousands of subscribers, but few videos have any comments.

    I don’t think it’s necessarily an issue with people not posting enough. I think there just aren’t enough people to sustain a social network with thousands of communities.

    • ekZepp
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      8 months ago

      I post a bit too, but honestly posting a link is not that much of a stretch. Just try starting more discussions topic posts if you want people to join.