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Lemmy Active Users looking good (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 3 months ago by squirrel@discuss.tchncs.de to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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[-] Deebster@programming.dev 234 points 3 months ago

I assume this latest bump is due to lemmy.world updating and now counting lurkers when assessing active users.

[-] Ategon@programming.dev 174 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Its still only voters, lurkers that dont do any actions arent counted

[-] Katzastrophe@feddit.de 93 points 3 months ago

Don't forget that Reddit was made up of 90% lurkers, and less than 1% of active posters, the rest would comment but rarely post themselves. These numbers are great if we keep those statistics in mind

[-] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 33 points 3 months ago

Commenters were already counted, though, so this bump is really just the vote-only population getting added. Which is still important to maintaining a healthy and varied front-page, mind you.

[-] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Why are they not separated out in any way? There should be separate bins for “active posters” “active commenters” and “active voters”. Otherwise you’re going to get some wacky data problems like this.

[-] Deebster@programming.dev 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

I think of a lurker as someone who doesn't post - I guess your definition is someone who doesn't interact at all (besides making an account and subscribing, I assume). But yes, I mean users who only vote are now counted (it's not using views afaik).