The solution would be to be more active. Fediverse and the experience in it is in your hands. And if you don’t give anything others won’t do either and we get nowhere.
I don’t know where I saw it but it’s some internet law regarding communities: 90% of all users are lurkers 9% are commentors and 1% are posters. In regards to Lemmy those percents translate to very few “content creators” (on reddit as it’s bigger it’s way better).
They had a community/place for “former lurkers to cheer each other on as we work together to overcome our hesitation when posting and commenting”. People shared stories how for example “I have never posted on Reddit but today I posted here in a community that interests me” and would get positive encouraging comments.
It seemed to work, the other communities benefitted from it.
The solution would be to be more active. Fediverse and the experience in it is in your hands. And if you don’t give anything others won’t do either and we get nowhere.
I don’t know where I saw it but it’s some internet law regarding communities: 90% of all users are lurkers 9% are commentors and 1% are posters. In regards to Lemmy those percents translate to very few “content creators” (on reddit as it’s bigger it’s way better).
Squabbles had a really good approach in this to motivate lurkers to comment and post. I don’t see a similar coordinated effort for that here.
How did they do that?
They had a community/place for “former lurkers to cheer each other on as we work together to overcome our hesitation when posting and commenting”. People shared stories how for example “I have never posted on Reddit but today I posted here in a community that interests me” and would get positive encouraging comments.
It seemed to work, the other communities benefitted from it.
Well why don’t we do that then? What should it be called?
Lurker’s Lounge?