Fediverse

But I was born a lurker :(

I've been posting more often lately. I'm doing my part, soldier!

Don't tell me how to live my life.

Nobody really cares what I have to say.

Contribtions to the fediverse are unwelcome in most popular spaces.

Unless you are just upvoting things.

If you are new you will be heavily scrutinized, and if the community owners don't love you instantly then your account goes in the "bot pile"

Makes it hard to want to participate when most relevant posts you make get removed and the mods ban you because they decide they don't like being embarrased when they're shitty.

I try, mostly through comments and votes.

I see a new post.
I click, I read, I scroll on.
I am the lurker.

#haiku (<- test to see how far this propagates in the mastodon / microblogging part of the fediverse)

Great posts from .Zip admins as usual

For people interested in growing communities, there is !fedigrow@lemmy.zip

How dare you invite me to participate!

90% of the Internet is made up of lurking.

I've never been one to post much on any social media platform but on Lemmy I try to make it up by upvoting things I want to see on the platform and commenting to get discussions going.

There are days where ei literally don't even have time to read anything, let alone posting.

But I'm not a lurker.

You're not the boss of me!!!

Also, I hope we can all make a concerted effort to be nicer to each other. It's the internet so that's not always easy but I do think that's one of the things holding us back.