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It's pretty obvious that when a server goes offline the total number of posts will go down, but it's not a helpful metric. Comparing the posts per day, rather than total number of posts on different days, would give a better idea of the effect.
The number of posts per day is a useful metric to measure activity, but the total number of posts, or specifically the reduction in the total number of posts, indicates lost posts. Luckily, thanks to federation, many of the posts live on on other servers, but it's still a huge loss of data,