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My first idea was "uh, interesting - why not do a poll for that?"

And then I noticed that would end up in some kind of lurker-paradox🤔

I have created the Kia Community. As a owner of the car, it's been awesome to find other owners who can share their knowledge & advice on maintenance & driving the car. Invited others in!

I've never created a subreddit but created a magazine here! Scoping for content to help build our new home. I just figure that if you ditched reddit you're kinda obligated to pitch in on the new space, idk.

Even if you don't create a magazine, just share something interesting once in a while?

It's Zipf's law, there's no reason to think Lemmy follows a different distribution.

I am a big part a lurker, but I also create content sometimes

And only 1% of the 1% contribute meaningful content.

I'm finally part of the 1%!

OK, I won't lie, I hear this all the time but I'm not convinced it's true.

Are there any real statistics on it which account for bit accounts? Like, if reddit claimed that 99% of its users don't make content, my immediate thought would be "how many users are real people and how many are bots?"

Does commenting count as creating content? I always thought of the posts as the content, but maybe I’m thinking about it wrong

For all the lurkers out there, just comment something, nobody's gonna judge you.

Part of the reason is internet commentators are so mean to each other, and many of us users don’t want to be judged by someone? (Although extreme echo chamber is also a bad thing)

Finally, I'm a one percenter.

Do comments count as content? If not, I think that percentage is a bit flawed, because I've read cool discussions here

Mostly lurk unless the discussion is something I feel I can add real value to with my own experiences\expertise. Likely 1 comment per year, like this one. Plus I don't vote on posts or comments.

Mainly a lurker. Hoping the regional sports game-day threads take off here cause that was the majority of my posting.

Why you gotta call me out like that? :D

The people that lurk will not participate and skew the result.

What's the percent that comments?

first day here, and it's too early to predict in which direction this will take off. i am hoping to create and post content around day-to-day happenings.

A bit like free-to-plays, where only 1% of players spend money.

I would be really curious if this was the case prior to the advent of smartphones. Was the ratio the same on early USENET or BBS? It’s so much easier to lurk than participate from a smartphone keyboard.

Well, I've never posted (yet), but commented a few times. More than on reddit, certainly! But overall, I do think that rule is going to hold. It creeps up all over the place. At this stage, I think it is just human nature at work and, as such, almost inevitable.

I'd say partway between participator and lurker. Sometimes I just don't really have a lot to say.