Additionally, there are “offline servers” that use mods to patch out all communication with Microsoft/Mojang/Minecraft systems, and various other pieces of code that attempt to enforce only paid players joining a server, ultimately allowing people to connect without having actually purchased the game.

Not sure if this is still the case, but at least a few years ago, it didn’t even require any mods. It was just a boolean toggle in the standard config file.

I’d say easier, but not by much. On average, there is less to dodge, and you have more flexibility, but things are faster overall.

I’m probably not going to undertake this, but I’m considering it. Do you just mean download all your submitted posts, and attached images? If so, it seems very simple.

No luck. Notably, the button they say this should enable is already present, it just doesn’t do anything.

Looks like it’s included in kubuntu-settings-desktop. I think it got uninstalled when I removed the how-to videos, since that seems to be the same package.

I went back and double checked. You’re right. I misremembered. It only uses post/comment actions with a “voted_at” value, so it wouldn’t include actions other than votes.

Edit: I was wrong.

From what I could tell, at least on Lemmy, any interaction including opening a post counts as an action, which in turn is used to determine active users.

I was actually digging through Lemmy’s codebase recently, trying to judge how difficult it would be to add. It seems that it probably wouldn’t be that difficult, since MAU just counts all posts/comments/actions from the last month, with unique user IDs. You’d just need to do the same thing but without actions. Unfortunately, I don’t know Rust, so I’m not sure if I can actually contribute anything.

I wish the threadverse software had more granularity in usage stats. For example, it might be really informative to know how many active users are those who only read and never interact versus those who vote, versus those who have contributed posts/comments within a given time period. For example, it feels to me like Lemmy has become far less active, even though the reported MAU has remained fairly stable - is this just my imagination, or are people feeling less inclined to post?

Lemmy-federate had issues recently, maybe try again now?

Unfortunately no luck. It looks like Lemmy-federate doesn’t play well with piefed.ca, since all other communities listed there just say, “waiting to be processed.”

Well, that would explain why I’m getting zero responses on my newly migrated account.