Still waiting for the ability to block instances as a user.

At least there's something to do here. Mastodon almost always feels like a ghost town to me. I only really keep it on my home screen because I like the icon.

To be expected. I like it but it's still quite an immature platform overall. There's lots to be done to make it easier for an average user.

This is not a bad thing. Lurkers have always been a significant part of the user base in all social media.

I can use Lenny with Lenny sync on my phone without issue but when I try to use my browser on my laptop I can't login. It's the same instance, save credentials.

I mentioned this in another thread but I think it's regression to the mean

Posting smth so I count as an active user again

Its actually very good

Lurker mainly but looking to get more involved!

A good part of that can be explained by the low time resolution of the graph. 1 month.

Let's assume 1 month ago, 100 new people signed up. Let's say 20 of those made a comment or post, which is the requirement to be counted as an active user.

Many of those 100 didn't stay for various reasons. Of the 20 'active' users, only 15 were coming back the next day.

But the graph still counts 20 active users for a whole month. Only 1 month after a user last commented or posted, this user is no longer counted as 'active'. So now we see a drop of -5 (all numbers made up).

I think it's perfectly normal that not everyone who signs up makes a post or comment. And that not everyone who tries out something new will stick around the next day, or the next week.

With a large number of new signups, which we had in the last months, it can be expected that another a large number is only active for a short time. Due to the low resolution, we probably see what happened 1 month ago.

The number of posts per day keeps growing though.