How are daily active users consistently decreasing while daily posts and comments are consistently increasing? Are fewer people participating more and more?

[–] nicolairathjen 4 points 1 year ago

AFAIK Lemmy counts active users as users who “engage”, meaning they post, comment or vote. Falling DAU/MAUs could be due to users not feeling obligated to engage, and instead engaging when they feel like it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the daily posts and comments are misleading. They actually show all the posts and comments that are avalaible.

Source: I made it up, but around the Reddit exodus we consistently had over 1k posts or even 2k ones daily. Now it's noticeably more rare to see those.