That's interesting, I would expect people who vote to be accounted

wow, I lurk so much more than I post stuff.. one would think they would track this

I think this is the biggest factor. Most people only lurk. How many people signed up and only lurk?

In this case, I have a theory. I remember a month ago people were posting a lot on Reddit and the !reddit@lemmy.ml community was extremely active. It was like group therapy for refugees. But now the new reality is setting in and people are actually having real and meaningful conversations, which means more lurkers.

So it doesn't mean that active users are down per se, it's just that it's stabilised because people are mostly over Reddit.

I wonder if lurkers were counted in reddits active user data