Fun fact: if you start posting regularly, 9 commenters and 90 lurkers will join to balance it out.
this post was submitted on 01 Jul 2026
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If only.
Then again, I'd say there's huge variance there based on how niche or how popular a community is.
I want to be the 1 percent but brain cell finds it all too hard even just writing a comment that rhymes is really difficult
Its easy enough to repost legacy memes. Antiques memes roadshow is like, a place to post reposts since, if it was new content, you'd be posting it in meirl or an appropriate community.
I am definitely a lurker, despite this comment.
Proud to be part of the 9% 💪
Does posting links count as content creation?
Sort of? I mean, you are creating discussion (potentially)..... something that was not there before...., so, content.
Yay, I'm a content creator!
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Now add in bots reposting spam-blog slop and see how it shifts. It seems like 80% of the posts I'm seeing on Lemmy are bots just spamming articles to pay-walled news articles or someone's news blog, all without any text or description other than a click-bait title, to drive traffic to the site.
On instances where the admins proactively seek out and tag bots and AI slop (like mine), the threadiverse looks quite different.
Shop around.
Weird. I'd put that at 10% or less of what I see. But I've blocked several communities and users.
seems more likely on reddit than lemmy. i dont see that many bots on lemmy, and they are usually the most trolly or downvoted comments.
Bots are generally spotted pretty quick and banned, though some do slip through. It is certainly not 80% on Lemmy (my perception is more like 7 to 10%).
Many people post links to news since it is relatively low effort, and something that can be done consistently to keep a community active and encourage discussion. That's not to say more original content wouldn't be appreciated and is needed, but as we are still small, there likely isn't a big enough pool of people who can create higher effort original stuff to keep up a constant 'supply', for lack of a better term.
A majority of what I'm seeing might not be bots but is definitely "low effort" as you said. I'll browse through the Hot posts across all instances Federated with my instance and it seems like most of what I see is just low-effort, copy-paste links with no description in the body of the post and a click-bait title leading to a pay-walled news article.
Isn't it next to impossible to make content on Wikipedia? Like I can't just create an account and go ham right? Is it that easy?
It is pretty easy. If you are a new account then of course someone needs to review your changes. I sometimes fix some typos or faulty sentences, but never added original content. But I guess you start small and the more small changes you make, the more trust you get.
On the German Wikipedia at least there are too many Blockwarte that delete new pages as not relevant almost immediatly, so I gave up trying to contribute there.
the most trafficked pages probably(politics, stem,,,,etc)? maybe an original entry by you might be different.
Does shitcommenting count as creating content? If so I’m in the one percent
Easy to say when your barrier of entry is so high