Me as well. I only remember this because around July 1st there was a post about it, which lead to a wave of “doing my part by posting my daily comment to count as an active user”-comments.
So true. This is straight from Lemmy’s documentation:
An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included.
Also worth noting is Lemmy only counts posts/comments as “active users”. Lurkers who only read and up/downvote aren’t counted.
That’s interesting, I would expect people who vote to be accounted
Me as well. I only remember this because around July 1st there was a post about it, which lead to a wave of “doing my part by posting my daily comment to count as an active user”-comments.
That was probably my post :)
wow, I lurk so much more than I post stuff… one would think they would track this
So true. This is straight from Lemmy’s documentation:
https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html
I think this is the biggest factor. Most people only lurk. How many people signed up and only lurk?
At least 2.
I wonder if lurkers were counted in reddits active user data