TL;DR: By default, Lemmy only counts posts and comments for active users. These instances also started counting the votes. According to Lemmy NSFW admin, there are 3 times more active users with lurkers.

[–] maegul@lemmy.ml 35 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Given all the different ways “active” is defined we may as well just collect all the meanings available.

Mastodon and Twitter etc, for example, count logging on as active.

While I can see the argument for voting, it is qualitatively different from posting/commenting. Knowing both, as well as log in numbers too might make sense. But muddying the waters is probably confusing … though it is interesting that any instance can define what it means by “active”.

[–] sabreW4K3@lemmy.tf 29 points 2 years ago

I would say that voting isn't actually different from posting/commenting. It's a process whereby a user takes part in a discussion/topic/post. In an ideal world, everyone would post, but we shouldn't act like active people who don't feel like they have anything to say explicitly, aren't here.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ah, that could be it. I would like other instances to do the same, to me ama voting lurker is an active user

[–] syd@lemy.lol 11 points 2 years ago

Absolutely. Other social media platforms count as active when we mistakenly enter their sites :)

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

According to Lemmy NSFW admin, there are 3 times more active users with jerkers.

FTFY

[–] Die4Ever@programming.dev 2 points 2 years ago

if you switch to daily stats you can see a big bump on the 4th, and a smaller bump on the 5th, is that when they made this change?

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

I think if you exclude those 2 days we're still on a very very slight downward trend, but once every instance adopts the new method it'll be interesting to see what the trend is after that, it could be that users get tired or posting/commenting and fallback to being lurkers