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While observing most genres of information exchange, one can categorize the individuals who partake into four categories:
1. Producer
2. Harvester
3. Dealer
4. Consumer
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Most people fall into the consumer category and the further up one goes through the list, the less amount of people one will find.
The consumer is an individual who only intakes the information.
The dealer is an individual who intakes the information and actively shares it with other individuals.
The harvester is an individual who takes information from one source and transfers it to another source. In comparison to dealers, they do a one-to-many sharing action over a one-to-one sharing action.
The producer creates new information.
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These categories are not strict to any one individual and each individual can be of any of these categories at any time.
E.g. one reads an interesting article and shares it with one's peers over DMs, then one is a dealer. If instead one just bookmarks the article, then one is a harvester. And if one reads it with no further action, then one is a consumer. If one wrote the article, then one is a producer.
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Another example is the genre of memes.
Most individuals just consume memes. Some individuals send memes to their peers, thus making them dealers. Some further individuals harvest memes or other funny texts from one platform like the Fediverse and share them to another platform like Signal, thus making them harvesters. And the least, actually create a new meme, either an original or a remix, thus making them producers.