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. ;)

The real lurkers don't even register.

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.

I comment a lot more here than Reddit

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

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 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'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.

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

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.

Just a lurker for now

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.

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

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!

Im a predator rrrrrrr

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 only make a post or make content when I feel like something I want to make is worth it or has a point to make. Most the stuff I want to post or make has also already been done so I don't want to clog stuff up with what is a worse version of the original.

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

Well, according to data from https://the-federation.info, 26.8% of Fediverse user accounts have commented or posted something in the last month. I'm not sure if I completely trust this wide-reaching dataset but it's something. Lemmy overall at its peak had 18.5% until a flood of bot accounts with no activity appeared on some open-signup servers, now it's at 3%.

Lemmy.world is sitting at 27% active user ratio, beehaw.org at 34.7%, lemmy.ca at 32.3%, lemmy.ml at 12%, sh.itjust.works at 19.2%

I'd wager early adopters tend to be more active. Probably it has something to do with the size of the community too, you don't feel like you're being drown in the noice and most people don't have that "I need my voice to be heard" impulse (I have to be fair) which drives people to actively participate in something like Reddit-size when they don't have anything particularly insightful to say.

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

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 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 :)