• Draconic NEO@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        2 months ago

        I have a feeling it was caused by something like that, likely a failure of some kind. The drop is way too steep and abruptly for it to be natural.

        • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          Active users are daily too (you have day, week and month counters in the sidebar of all communities)

            • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
              3·
              2 months ago

              The Fediobserver has daily and monthly stats for active users. I assume daily indeed follow daily variations. You also saw those huge bumps when LW updated and started counting votes as activity

              • Danterious@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
                35·
                2 months ago

                I think the observer shows daily and monthly stats for the active users per month and active users per half year so the active users per month wouldn’t change as fast I think.

                Also about it being a botfarm I do think that is a possibility. Actually there is more evidence for it when you see extend the graph to 120 days and see a huge uptick in users and servers at the same time. Edit: 2024-7-29

                Edit: wording

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                • Blaze (he/him)OPEnglish
                  2·
                  2 months ago

                  I think the observer shows daily and monthly stats for the active users per month and active users per half year so the active users per month wouldn’t change as fast I think.

                  Indeed, I was remembering it wrong, you might be right!

                  Also about it being a botfarm I do think that is a possibility. Actually there is much clearer evidence for it when you see extend the graph to 120 days and see a huge uptick in users and servers at the same time. Edit: 2024-7-29

                  Definitely