Reddit is down - Lemmy.world

Is there a place to watch lemmy user numbers in real time? interested to see if there’s a spike as users try out something else with their new free time.

FediDB - Fediverse Network Statistics

Fediverse Network Statistics

Those are some big boy numbers. 2 mil posts and almost 1/4mil active users. Getting there!

138k active users to 554k total users is about 25%, which I would imagine is significantly higher than most social media.

Is someone marked an active user if they ever voted or posted a comment/post, or do they drop off if they haven’t done so in 14 days?

The active user count is bullshit in my opinion. We know most users are just reading and not posting or commenting. Those users are invisible in these stats.
Maybe a good middle ground would be an user that upvotes. That would include all the lurkers, that contribute by upvoting/downvoting.
Yeah it would improve the stats to be more realistic and it could probably be implemented as well, at least easier than logins which probably is not even federeted.