• ripcord@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Is that total users, or active users?

    Total users will never rarely decline.

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        8 months ago

        I knew I shouldn’t have used the word “never”, although I was thinking that only “deleted” accounts would drop the total count. That’s also a good point.

        But it still seems unlikely that there will be a LOT or cases where the total number drops by a proportionately large number, unless something really bad happens (or there’s some big initiative at some point to remove inactive or not accounts)

        The more important stat - the one that people would be much more likely to be talking about seeing a “decline” in, in cases like this - is “active” users.