Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users

https://lemm.ee/post/3318472

Lemmy is popular nowadays, yet is losing its active users - lemm.ee

Similar to Mastodon’s spikes last year, it seems. Anyways, there is data to think about. Source [https://the-federation.info/platform/73]

As a lurker I mostly just vote. But gotta post every once in a while to add to active users stat!
I don’t know why, but it never occurred to me that you need to comment to be counted as “active”
Is this actually written somewhere?
I would have thought votes would count as a unique interaction to count towards being active