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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[–] burretploof 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm happy to be here. Lemmy seems like a good place so far. I'm not sure if it will take off in the long term (I think a lot of people don't "get" the whole federated thing, just like with Mastodon), but I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mastodon has gotten really good at obfuscating the federation away in normal use, Lemmy and Kbin are picking up those tricks a lot faster.

For example, v18 made linking communities possible by just typing the name, and Lemmy then handles making it a working link on each instance.

The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn't need to be a complicating factor.

[–] burretploof 1 points 1 year ago

The trickiest part will be having users pick an instance, but once past that hurdle, the federation aspect doesn't need to be a complicating factor.

Yep, that's the thing. When Mastodon was hot for a while, most complaints I saw were about people not getting that they can pick almost whichever instance and/or having trouble deciding because they didn't fully understand that it usually matters very little.

[–] Spellbind8558 4 points 1 year ago

I'm personally finding the federation a nice little "technical" hurdle to keep low-effort comments and content at bay.