Not sure if this is the right place to post, but when the reddit protests were happening, I used Lemmy for a bit then decided to detox from "social media" for a while till now. Am I misinterpreting the activity here?

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[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 26 points 6 days ago (2 children)

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/stats&months=48

65k Monthly Active Users (MAU) in July 2023, 33k by November 2023, 44k now.

[–] FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Really interesting that MAU number has been declining for past 3 months, but number of posts and comments has been balooning.

[–] OpenStars@discuss.online 1 points 4 days ago

(The USA election surely - also talked about by people outside of the USA, e.g. I saw quite a few posts on lemmy.ml about it...)

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ah so its not that bad, I was under the impression by your comment that it died like at 1k or less people lol

[–] walden@sub.wetshaving.social 19 points 6 days ago

There's a difference in how active users are counted now, too, so that skews the numbers. An active user used to be a user who posted or commented. Now voting makes a user active.