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[–] OutrageousUmpire@lemmy.world 9 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Good to see, but as with all posts like this, it’s important to note that the really important number is “Active Users” That number has gone up significantly as well, just not as fast as number of accounts.

[–] JeffCraig@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Yeah this is a good point.

It took me months to actually start using Lemmy and Mastodon. I would consider myself a tech savvy person and it still took a while getting used too. I think there need to be better tutorials linked on the sign-up pages that help people understand the basic concepts. That would help drive true user acquisition.

[–] Potato_in_my_anus@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

I'm also a "tech savvy" and still trying to understand how all this works...

[–] Solo@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I just started with mastodon. Lemmy I'm pretty understanding at but do you have any people/ hashtags you reccomend following on mastodon to not make the whole place feel so small and repetitive? I'm interested in pretty much anything.

[–] JeffCraig@lemmy.world 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, with Mastodon, I'm at the same place. I signed up with a very specific and small instance and it's a ghost-town. I don't have the time to search around for content. I'll probably start looking for a larger default instance and go from there.

[–] TheBrainGuy@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What's considered an "Active User"?

[–] AsepticFuturisticFox@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

A person who posted/commented in the last 30 days

From the docs: "Lemmy also shows counts of active users for your site, and its communities. These are counted within the last day, week, month, and half year, and are cached on starting up lemmy, and every hour.

An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame. For site counts, only local users are counted. For community counts, federated users are included."

https://join-lemmy.org/docs/contributors/07-ranking-algo.html

[–] wee_butterfly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I've posted more in the week I joined here than I ever did in Reddit.

[–] Solo@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)
[–] haulyard@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

Just checked. Yup, one post. Still helping the fediverse in my book.

[–] expatriado@lemmy.world 2 points 2 years ago

maybe wee_butterfly didn't retain memories from when was a wee_caterpillar