According to Lemmy's documentation, "An active user is someone who has posted or commented on our instance or community within the last given time frame."

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EDIT: check out this link for a list of lemmy apps: https://lemmy.world/post/465785

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[–] hardypart@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They made the general user number explode for sure, but those bots are not really active yet, so they don't count as "active users".

[–] Naminreb@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If they’re like NewsUser and Botittest, the bots will flood this place when they start. Even though these two good bots have made this place a lot more usable, it feels like that’s what the “All” thread has become. Just news.

Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

Whichever the instances that lowered their guard were, there will be a day they will have to be defederated. It’ll be a test for this place, for sure.

[–] Nepenthe@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Don’t get me wrong, I like the news feed, but now I understand why it became a separate thread in Reddit.

Same boat as you. It was your comment that made me realize the one filling my feed with nothing but news was all only linkbot and when I blocked it out of curiosity, I could see memes and user posts again. It was posting so often it was literally drowning out every other subject.

I think it's nice to keep up with news on a platform that doesn't seem so US-centric and full of vitriol, and I'll be sad to see it go. Might turn the block on and off. But I'm already subbed to a news community.