By browsing the current top of the day, besides the usual posts in Programmer Humor and the tech communities, you can notice a few posts in !comicstrips@lemmy.world by @otter@lemmy.ca

I find it interesting how the famous 90-9-1 (https://www.nngroup.com/articles/participation-inequality/) is at work here, and that for everything you post, you might get hundreds of upvotes almost immediately.

That's all for now, not really ground-breaking thoughts, but I thought it might be worth sharing.

Take care

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[–] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve definitely been posting on Lemmy far more than I ever posted on Reddit. Trying to do my share and help this community grow!

[–] 7Sea_Sailor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 38 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've seen this mentality in other threads and I'll repeat it here - the smaller userbase makes me feel like my comments, thoughts and opinions are actually seen, that I don't type them out for nothing. I never interacted on reddit, but do a lot more so here.

[–] Blaze@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago

Definitely a shared feeling

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Getting five thoughtful comments and 100 up votes is much nicer than 50 flames and 1,000 votes.

[–] jtk@lemmy.sdf.org 17 points 1 year ago (2 children)

But for what, really? There's no incentive to be a karma whore here (a good thing), right? It feels good to see the upvotes, but only because I'm glad I posted something the community likes/agrees with as much as I do. I never post because I think the community would eat it up like candy. The points don't really carry beyond that specific post, do they?

[–] mayo@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

It's just a demonstration of the 90-9-1 idea

[–] typo@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

For what? To engage in the community as a whole and to encourage others to as well, or to get your community noticed by people browsing the different filters (new, hot, active, top...)

For why I'd want to post? It would depend on what I'm posting. For example, if it was a meme I thought was funny and it got a lot of upvotes, I'd feel good knowing that other people found it funny, too

If I post looking for a conversation about a topic or at an answer to a question, I'd be excited for some upvotes but a little let down if no one actually responded

Also there's no incentive to be a karma whore on reddit either.. well except their harebrained idea to monetize whatever new award system is coming

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 16 points 1 year ago

I've been tryin to post as much as I can, but more so doing quality over quantity especially in my own communities

[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm happy my sub got another comment on a post I made.

[–] Bilbo@hobbit.world 1 points 1 year ago

Hey HobbitFoot! Are you related to the Hobbiton Proudfoots/feet?

Feel free to join us at !hobbit_art@hobbit.world and post some of your hobbit family artwork.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

1% of users participate a lot and account for most contributions: it can seem as if they don't have lives because they often post just minutes after whatever event they're commenting on occurs

(withdraws whatever comment I was about to make)

[–] Speculater@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We caught him sir. The poster is right here!