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138k active users to 554k total users is about 25%, which I would imagine is significantly higher than most social media.
Is someone marked an active user if they ever voted or posted a comment/post, or do they drop off if they haven’t done so in 14 days?
The active user count is bullshit in my opinion. We know most users are just reading and not posting or commenting. Those users are invisible in these stats.
An active user should be anyone who logged into Lemmy in the last 30 days.
This also means that small instances with a low amount of "active" users could have a lot of users actually using it in silence.
Active should mean "using Lemmy", not posting.
Maybe a good middle ground would be an user that upvotes. That would include all the lurkers, that contribute by upvoting/downvoting.
Yeah it would improve the stats to be more realistic and it could probably be implemented as well, at least easier than logins which probably is not even federeted.
Active is only creating a post or comment. Voting doesn't count. Simply because of how Lemmy counts, which will be different to how bigger sites count their own users.
But also Lemmy really took off over the past 2 months. So if people signed up, posted once, then never came back, they will still be listed as an active user because of how little time has passed.