If people use it and they don't post or comment, it could go dark

Can’t we just upvote?
- I wanna give you a meaningless gold. Here, take it 🪙
- Why does up/downvoting not count as active? Doesn’t make sense.
- Nope—upvoting doesn’t add to the user count for whatever reason. Deleted comments do though!

But, I'm a lurker.
- I'm lurking you lurkers.
- Not anymore. You just made a comment.
  
  Dear lord, they got me out into the light. It burns!! :)

Plot twist: All of the "bot accounts" were actually a huge influx of Reddit users who were lurking. By removing the accounts / defederating with their instances, we've sent them all back to Reddit, ensuring Reddit can pull through the mass exodus.
- Nah lol, I'm an admin and could see all the email addresses they were using. Fake af
  
  tbf disposable email services are a thing
  
  But my email is a Fastmail masked email, it’s randomly generated l, so it might look fake as well ¯(ツ)_/¯

Well fuck

Here is my comment

I'm doing my part! 🔫👨🏼‍🚀 🐜

Gotta keep that ball rollin.

But it's scary

“We are here! We are here! We are here!”

Hello

But I don't waaaaaannaaaaa

Ok

How is upvoting/downvoting not considered being active? :/
- Yeah, for a fair comparison the standard definition of "active user" is just viewing posts. Not sure why Lemmy sets the bar so high. Maybe they don't care about vanity stats - besides mild curiosity, I couldn't care less.
  Posting or commenting seems more like "contributing users" and posts like this just encourage unhelpful noise.
- This is my point exactly

But if I comment then I'll break my 9 year record of being a lurker on social media!

Bananas

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[Two men next to one another in an office cubicle. The man on the left is sitting at a desk looking anxiously at the man on the right, who is standing and gesturing with his hands as he explains something]
Lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users
You gotta post or comment!
^{I'm a human volunteer transcribing posts in a format compatible with screen readers, for blind and visually impaired users!}

But what if I'm an introvert and like to lurk? Introverts unite! Separately! And in different places!

Upvoting doesn't count as activity?

Here's my single comment contribution.

I'm doing my part 💪

About 15 years ago many of us left Digg and migrated to Reddit because at that time it became kind of what Reddit is right now without even all the API shit going on.
I have been hoping for something to replace Reddit for a few years now but it seems like every possible alternative would instantly become populated by the alt-right, people who got evinced from other platforms, instead of free software loving geeks and their relatives.
Reddit actually gave us the kick in the butt that we needed to start anew and make something better. I wanted to fight, I made the subs I managed private and then NSFW but I realize it is not worth spending the energy.
We are the people who made Reddit great but there is no point in trying to keep it this ways, it isn't even great anymore anyway. Let's not be slaves to a company that only cares about profit and acts as if we need them while the truth is that they need us.
Trying to make Reddit better, at this point, is like volunteering for Microsoft instead of contributing to open-source projects with the hope that they will become less oriented toward profits.
This is already a place we can call our own, all we have to do is to furnish it and make it a nice place to be for those who understand why it is worthwhile to do so. It is not the actual owners of Reddit that made it great, quite the contrary even, they keep on making it worst. It is us, the users who made it great and we can do the same here.
I am pretty sure Aaron Swartz himself would tell us to leave the site he created if he could communicate from his grave. There is no point in wasting energy for a company that wants to sell us NFTs, virtual gifts and rewards. I never bought any of this shit anyway but I am going to make Lemmy a donation right now!

First comment!!

Rabbits

I'll think about it

Lemmy become an active user then

Am I doing this right?

I like trains.
- I like tuetles
  
  Hello mine-turtle!

Ok

- That's what I was lookin' to see :)
  
  this is the way
- Would you like to learn more?

am I doing this right? can everyone hear me?

I mean, I've had a Reddit account for 13-14 years, maybe even longer, as I was a lurker who bookmarked different subreddits, prior to making an account. In those years, I have commented maybe 5 times in total. So you dont get to tell me what to do, and I certainly won't be commenting on this post.
- This. I never commented on Reddit and will continue to do the same here. No one can change my mind!
  
  Hell yeah, not comment gang represent!

Rawr
- XDDDD

Ok ok

You’ve GOT to give

I am doing my part..

Ok

This is not a strictly commercial network. Do we really need useless comments or posts just to increase some stats numbers? I'd think about quality contents instead.
- Agreed. Quality > Quantity in this case
  
  Whelp, that’s me out

YOU GOTTA GIVE!
- I'm super happy with my calico cut pants!

I am not getting notifications for replies to my comments on android, I have tried jerboa, summit, liftoff, thunder, and connect for lemmy
Am I missing something here? Are push notifications not implemented yet?
- Notifications have been very spotty for me on Jerboa (not tried the others) but they are implemented. Just not always effectual for some reason.
  
  Testing

Active lurker

I’m doing my part
- I'm doing my part
  
  I'm doing my part

Honestly the only thing that's holding me back from using Lemmy is that it not having a good app. I truly tried both Jerboa and Connect.
Jerboa for me crashes a lot and Connect doesn't have a good content separation guides.
But I will be sticking at lemmy for the long run anyway

Lemmy only counts users who posted or commented as active users

You gotta post or comment!