According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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[–] IninewCrow@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

and I'll be the first one to say it because either people don't want to talk about it or they just don't think about it

SUPPORT YOUR INSTANCE .... SUPPORT YOUR OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE

It doesn't matter who you are on ... lemmy, kbin, mastodon or anyone else ... find your instance owner and see if they are looking for donations or subscriptions and sign up for them

Sure the only way we can protect this new system is by keeping it federated, open and decentralized ... but it all only works if small groups of people pay for the basic hardware services and rental services and any other services out there to keep it all running ... yes the costs are minimal for small instances but those costs only add up as their instance becomes more popular.

Supporting your instance means it will stay protected ... if you burn out your instance owners or they run into financial trouble .. then your instance will start more risks including being shut down or sold to someone else

And it doesn't take much to support these guys ... if we all just gave a dollar a month, it would be more than enough to support them.