this post was submitted on 30 Nov 2023
927 points (97.3% liked)

Fediverse

27910 readers
3 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to [email protected]!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 35 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Do votes count as activity as well? Or just posts and comments?

[–] [email protected] 44 points 11 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I can see the arguments for both, to be honest. Ideally I'd like to be able to see statistics for both. Active Users and Active Contributors?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You can already see how many posts and comments users make. Isn’t that the same?

[–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Well, as mentioned that is also covered by the Monthly Active Users metric that already is available. But in addition to that, I think it would be interesting to see the number of users who read and vote but don't post or comment. Even though posting and commenting is the biggest part, actively voting is still an important part of the ecosystem.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

True, could be nice to see data on content consumers, and not just the content creators.

[–] Ategon 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

I changed the algorithms in programming.dev to take into account voters in the activity. Since stats are all calculated locally you can view any community from programming.dev to get the monthly active users including that change

e.g. https://programming.dev/c/[email protected] shows 27.8k users/month on p.d which is almost as much as the value here for all of lemmy excluding voters

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's crazy! User/month goes from only 7.5k active to 27.8k. And that's just people voting. What about people who only read a post?

[–] Ategon 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Dont have access to those stats in the database so adding on voting is the best I can do

Theres a post read table but its only people who have explicitly marked something as read and is way less than the post likes

[–] Deebster 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Do posts get marked as read when you read the comments? There's the x new comments feature, so something must be storing that timestamp.

[–] Ategon 4 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I dug through the code and turns out the post read table does store when its read (with number of comments when it was read stored in a person post aggregates table), it just only stores it for people from your instance so I cant get accurate numbers from all of lemmy (and why it seemed like there was a low amount)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

[email protected]

*edit: so, that seems to not have worked in the Boost app. Is it a link for anyone else?

[email protected]

That doesn't seem to make a hyperlink either.

/c/[email protected]

[–] AnActOfCreation 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

All three of those work in Thunder!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks! I guess it's just a bug in Boost.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago

Agreed. Lurkers are what keep these sites alive.

[–] Die4Ever 13 points 11 months ago

Votes unfortunately don't count