According to FediDB almost all Kbin users are counted as active users (62,396 total users, 61,811 monthly active users). Lemmy’s radio is completely different, 347,379 total and 70,438 active. Apparently Lemmy only counts accounts as active if they post or comment. Does Kbin use a different method or is there some other explanation to the discrepancy?
Active users are counted the same way. Lemmy has had lot of problems with bots registering thousands of accounts and never posting
Still sounds pretty incredible that 99 percent of all users on Kbin would have posted or commented. According to the old 1-9-90 rule, around 90 percent of the users should be lurkers for most sites.
The Kbin users does, however, seem to post less. At least if you compare Kbin.social and Lemmy.world. At Kbin.social you have 0.63 posts per active member and at Lemmy.world it’s 2.40 posts per active member. So something seems wonky in the stats.
Is it really necessary to post or comment to be considered active? I would think reading a single thread would be sufficient. There’s plenty of active lurkers that browse the forum that never post.
