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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Ategon@programming.dev 6 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
Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com 6 months ago
Ategon@programming.dev 6 months ago
It depends on what is being called activity
The standard that social media uses for monthly active users it 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
swab148@startrek.website 6 months ago
It’d be hard to track lurkers on federated platforms though
Ategon@programming.dev 6 months ago
For communities yes due to cross instance stats but for instances themselves (which the stats above is based on) no. You can just use post read times in addition to the three which will catch anyone who has read a post
swab148@startrek.website 6 months ago
Neat, good to know that there’s a mechanism, would there be a way for these statisticians to get this information? Or would it have to be self-reported?
Ategon@programming.dev 6 months ago
Self reported, no public way to get post reads, its just in the db