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Blaze (he/him) @feddit.org

3w ago

Another random blip in the stats

https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

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I hate the fact that the vertical axis starts at 7 million, making the drop seem deceptively large
- Seems fine to me, the axes are easy to understand and there would be a lot of unnecessary whitespace otherwise. Though, it does require some reading comprehension, and that one actually looks at it and not just skims over.
  
  I agree that this way of displaying the data is appropriate, but it would be nice to have a very visible indicator of this. Some kind of highlighted "fold" line or something at the very bottom of the chart, maybe. If I can deduce the units from context, and the trend is more interesting than absolute numbers, then I'm not going to look at the axes most of the time
  
  This reading comprehension joke it overused and it doesn't even make sense here. It's well-known that you need at least one of those little zigzag indicators when the graph doesn't start at 0 in most cases to avoid people misinterpreting the graph and to make it much more visually clear.
  
  Using compressed axes to display data was literally "How to identify misleading statistics 101" in middle school for us....
  It seems fine to you but for the majority of people it's misleading most people look at the lines and the relative distance between them to make judgment calls. Not literally the entire point of graphs, to visually display information.
  This is a well-known effect and is taught in pretty much every major curriculum.

Seems like a major server not reporting their numbers.
- A 20% drop in use on American Thanksgiving doesn't seem even remotely outlandish to me
  
  I still doubt we make 9 millions posts per day, there is another graph dedicated to comments, which has a much tinier drop on Thanksgiving: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
  
  For sure; I sure wasn't on my phone at all that day, and I'm usually on Lemmy daily. Too busy cooking and mingling with family.
- It's Thanksgiving. Either a massive drop in posters due to travel or family or whoever was sending the data was similarly out.
  
  I had definitely noticed things were more quiet than usual on English Lemmy, so I figured it was just the Americans being busy with that.
  
  I still doubt we make 9 millions posts per day, there is another graph dedicated to comments, which has a much tinier drop on Thanksgiving: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
- That makes a lot of sense.
- Possibly an outage from a patch no?

Sorry. That was me. I ate them all.

Thanksgiving?

It's Thanksgiving. A lot of people visiting with friends/family. Idk how to access the numbers but I'd imagine last year was about the same
- I still doubt we make 9 millions posts per day, there is another graph dedicated to comments, which has a much tinier drop on Thanksgiving: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats

Something's odd with the numbers from fediverse observer. Numbers shown in monthly graphs should be about 30 times higher than numbers shown in daily graphs, but they are about the same
- I always assumed its daily reporting of monthly active users. the nodeinfo format that is used for reporting the data does not show daily active users iirc (it is seemingly capable of reporting weekly users).
- Its probably the average number per day in a month(the total number divided by 30)
- Well spotted

We were busy those nights, and if you didn't get the memo it's best to stop asking questions while you still can.
- I mean, I always thought of OP as someone in the Lemmy's loop. I guess it doesn't know everything...
  
  I still doubt we make 9 millions posts per day, there is another graph dedicated to comments, which has a much tinier drop on Thanksgiving: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
- I still doubt we make 9 millions posts per day, there is another graph dedicated to comments, which has a much tinier drop on Thanksgiving: https://lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats
  
  This could actually make sense if those bot posts that mirror reddit subs are included in this number since those don't really get any comments

This should say total posts, not average, right?
- I am thinking it is probably comments and not posts as well.
  
  There's a separate graph on that page for comments, which are up around 17 million.

We need to post harder, not smarter

Probably just a reporting bug. Comments stayed consistent.
- Oh, definitely

What would cause this?
- Assuming it’s not a bug, maybe Americans busy with Thanksgiving? I know I was on less as a result
  
  I’m thinking that, a lot of users were hanging out with relatives and traveling.
  
  Yeah, I barely looked at Lemmy Thursday - Saturday.
- @The_Picard_Maneuver@lemmy.world must have taken a Thanksgiving break lmao 😂
- som kind of bot going down maybe?
- Turkey day travel and spending time with family by prolific posters is likely.

People preparing xmas gifts and planning for holidays?
- That looks much more like a data artifact than an accurate representation of behavior.
  I think that the trajectory of the three low dots matches the overall slope very closely in a way that looks far more like a flat subtraction of all three. If it was behavioral, I think you'd see the behavior come and go over the course of several days.
  
  Maybe it was some sort of federation issue?
  
  You are right, that is quite a dramatic drop and rise.

Ik Lemmy is a small social media,is this why I feel like Lemmy is dead.
- We've been conditioned by endless scrolls, for sure.
  
  True

Friday Saturday right?
We're all lemmying for the weekend

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