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.

  • B0Y0@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    “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?

    • GreenSkree@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      It’s just used as a way to count users per server, I believe. People who aren’t commenting could be bots or just unused accounts.

    • sirnak@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      This is just for the statistics that show the number of active users on a platform/instance/community level.