The groundwork made in the apps, frontends, tools and instances is finally paying off. The masses are noticing the value!
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but doesn’t Lemmy determine active users differently now, as compared to then? I recall a .world post about that, contemporaneous to when active users spiked. In any case, I appreciate the new folks!
That's true, originally only users that posted or commented were counted as active. Then they changed it to count users who had voted as active, even if they didn't post or comment.
But I believe that change occured almost one year ago, in March 2024. You can see a big spike of active users at that time. Starting this January we've seen some really nice organic growth, although it's not nearly to the level of the API exodus. We still need more users, but it's really encouraging to see some solid growth after over a year of stagnation/slow decline.
Yes, back then you had to comment or post. These days it also counts users who vote within the timeframe as active users.
I've always wondered why active-but-silent didn't count. If you bother to login, you're active to me.
Logins aren't federated, so for counting active users in a community votes, comments, posts is about all you have.
Hey, where are you getting these stats from? I ask because FediDB is down.
They’re from https://join-lemmy.org/instances
Okay, for context, this means that Lemmy has gained 4.4K MAUs over last month.
Not bad.
Fedidb has always had strange numbers...
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