Reddit migrator here (shocking, I know)
Just wondering because I found out about all this yesterday and just realized the ammount of independent servers, but no sign of any ads or sponsors. So… is it all based on donations?
Also don’t just lurk, if you know you should answer because lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users.
What exactly did this mean? What are the benefits of being an “active” user, or the drawbacks for not? Does that impact the effectiveness of that user’s up/downvotes, or something?
It’s just used as a way to count users per server, I believe. People who aren’t commenting could be inactive bots or just unused accounts.
Or chronic lurkers, like me
This is just for the statistics that show the number of active users on a platform/instance/community level.