2y ago

What does the x/user per month mean?

I'm new here on Lemmy.

When looking at the different communities, I get really surprised at how few people are using it. For instance, the ProCreate community says 4 / users per month. Does that mean only 4 people are being active? Or have I misunderstood?

Thank you in advance!

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- Okay thank you. I'm just surprised that it's so few!
  
  yeah, from my experience lemmy has way fewer but more active users compared to reddit
- Do votes count as activity?
  Personally, I would consider that too lurker-y to count, but I could see both sides of that particular argument.
  Then again, I could get off my ass and go read the fuckin code... Is my reddit refugee showing?? :P
Adding on to what everyone else has said, the "Users per month" counter counts only the users on your home instance (the instance you created your account on) who have posted or commented in the subreddit this month. The total number of active users across all instances can be seen when you view the community from its home instance.
- Really? Because in my private instance, the communities have a lot more users than just 1.
  
  It could be that bigger instances consider syncing the aggregates to be a low priority task, because the user counts on my instances (100-300 users) are much lower than the counts on the original instances.
I'm pretty sure it means the number of users that have posted or commented during the past 30 days.
- I can confirm this but only empirically, as I know of a community where only like 4 people actually commented, but I know at least a few dozen looked at.
Few people isn't so bad. Common problem on Reddit was when a cool subreddit grows and immediately goes downhill.
- That's true. It's gonna take some getting used to, I was hoping to see something similar to r/ProCreate with hundreds of posts with arts and tutorials. But it will probably grow over the next months :)

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