That’s not limited to Lemmy. It’s what happens across all social media. A tiny percentage of people will post, a larger percentage will comment, and the vast majority will lurk. The general numbers I’ve heard thrown around are 1-9-90, but the posters and commenters are probably much lower than 1% and 9%. Especially as platform size increases.
As for why, and this is hazarding a guess: posting takes effort, commenting takes less, and lurking takes the least.
Great question, I honstly dont know, I think if you can answer that you can make a lot of money somewhere lol companies spend millions trying to get people to engage with stuff
That’s not limited to Lemmy. It’s what happens across all social media. A tiny percentage of people will post, a larger percentage will comment, and the vast majority will lurk. The general numbers I’ve heard thrown around are 1-9-90, but the posters and commenters are probably much lower than 1% and 9%. Especially as platform size increases.
As for why, and this is hazarding a guess: posting takes effort, commenting takes less, and lurking takes the least.
Kinda sucks don’t you think?
No. I prefer signal rather than noise.
Yes, but the more we comment and post the more likely it is new memebers will stay which eventually leads to more posters and commenters
What incentives them to start participating and not lurk anymore?
Great question, I honstly dont know, I think if you can answer that you can make a lot of money somewhere lol companies spend millions trying to get people to engage with stuff
Man that’s so true. Good point. It gets tiring being only one of the few to post stuff. Wish more ppl made that effort