I'm wondering how my community has 10 subscribers, but only shows 2 users in the past 6 months (the community is less than 1 month old).
How did users subscribe without visiting? Are they bots? Am I misunderstanding how these stats work?
this post was submitted on 29 Jun 2023
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As I've heard it, Lemmy only counts "active users" to be accounts that have commented or posted. Users can visit, browse, subscribe (and i think vote?) But will not be counted in the user total.
There's also the high probability that lemmy is just not tallying them right... not sure how it handles users browsing and interacting from other federated instances tbh
Correct, this is my understanding. Your profile isn't even visible to other users until you've posted something.
Personally I like that metric. It would almost be nice to have both an "active users" as well as a view/visit count. It's nice knowing how much actual activity a community is getting. It's something that sometimes feels missing from reddit.
The "active users" might explain it. My community is just posting music/Youtube links, so not really much to drive engagement. Thanks
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