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On Lemmy instances, are the "users / day" sections meant to be how many users are active in that time frame, or is it how many signups there are? It also gets a little confusing when it says stuff like 1.3k users online, and then 95 users on another section as if it's the total. I'm thinking this might be a combination of both local instance statistics and the combined stats of all the instances that it's federating with, but I'm not sure. Edit: This is on the main instance page of an instance, it changes per community you have open but I'm mainly curious about the main page stats #lemmy (📎1)
  • nachtigall@feddit.deEnglish
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    1 year ago

    Users online shows the number of open websocket connections to the server (or particular community). So if I’d open 5 tabs it would show 5 additional users.

    For the others I don’t know. I’d suspect that is the number of unique people posting or commenting?

    • hybrid havoc@beehaw.orgOPEnglish
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      1 year ago

      The websocket counting is interesting. I was a little confused about how the active user count could be higher than the users in the last day. So it seems like that’s the weird one of the bunch.