Eugen RochkoI haven't been following it very closely but looks like Mastodon's monthly active user count climbed back up to 2.1M over the last couple of weeks. Not far off from our last peak!
πΎπππππ@Gargron 2.1M must be divided by 10 to get closer to real data. I can't understand how you can include as active user someone that did one time login a month ago. My 2cc π€
Antifa Warlord@Sampei If they didn't count users that logged in a month ago then many active people would not be counted. Most users do not re-login every day and most probably stay logged in for weeks so I think counting anyone who last logged in within a month ago as active is a good way to make sure those people are counted.
@antifawarlord I'm sorry but I disagree. By "login" I mean people who have opened mastodon once in the last month without interacting. My instance now has 38 active users, actually there are 3 or 4 of us. The others are people who have never written even a "hello". To me those are not active users.
@Sampei I think we are in agreement about the definition of login lol... That's exactly how it's counted in the code. At first I thought you disagreed with the month interval so I explained why it makes sense to count a month - but I see you just disagree with counting logins as active. I don't care either way & agree it would be more intuitive if active meant taking actions on the site, but then you wouldn't be able to compare numbers with all other sites that count logged-in lurkers "active".
@Sampei It would just make Mastodon artificially look worse than reality when the press does comparisons.