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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[–] LemmyNameMyself 0 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

~~Most are bots though

Many instances have over 40k total users but only 10 people or so active

I think about 250k is the number of real people (still very impressive)~~

[–] sudneo 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's why the post used active users as a metric. From 3000 to 50000 is still quite a leap. I am actually not necessarily looking forward to 100millions users. A few thousands interesting/ed people in a given community is way more than enough.

[–] LemmyNameMyself 2 points 2 years ago

Oh, right, didn't notice it's about active users