What is considered as active ? Is someone connecting to his account and lurking considered active ? Or, someone who just up/downvote without commenting or posting ?

[–] link@lemy.lol 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Users who posts or comments. I’m not sure about votes tho 🤔

Edit: its posts or comments. No lurkers. I think they should include voters to get an actual number.

[–] freamon@endlesstalk.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

programming.dev changed how active users are calculated on their instance to include voters as well as posters & commentators. It's a massive difference - programming_humor went from about 700 monthly active users to about 7000, for example.

Viewing communities from other instances from programming.dev's perspective will give a figure that includes voting activity.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Was going to comment about it, then saw it was you ha ha.

[–] yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago

Glad that my votes are getting counted

[–] khannie@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

Definitely would be a more accurate representation of "active" IMO