• Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com
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    10 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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      10 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