• Ategon@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Calculation for MAU changed so the old MAU and the new MAU cant really compared

    old one used to include commenters and posters while the new one has that and also voters
    both are missing people who dont do any of these three actions though

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      9 months ago

      People who don’t do any of those actions are not active users. Lurkers are not active by definition.

      They shouldn’t be included in the active user count, because they’re not contributing any activity.

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        9 months ago

        It depends on what is being called activity

        The standard (I say standard but its really just the thing most sites use since it boosts their numbers) that social media uses for monthly active users is to do people who have logged in. This is what mastodon uses as well

        While they aren’t actively contributing content they are still actively using the site (active account as opposed to dead account)

        I think lemmy should match up to the mastodon and other social media calculations so these comparisons actually make sense otherwise were just making lemmy feel dead by calling a different calculation MAU than what people are used to and since both calculations are being compared like they’re equal

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      9 months ago

      Yeah there was no rise in the number of servers, you might say that theoretically it means nothing but in practice i don’t think i ever saw these two metrics not correlate.