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Comment on Lemmy MAUs climbing back up! You love to see it.

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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swab148@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
It’d be hard to track lurkers on federated platforms though

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- Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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  - swab148@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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?
    
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    Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Self reported, no public way to get post reads, its just in the db
    
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Electromechanical_Supergiant@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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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- Ategon@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ 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
  
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