Theres only so much one man can do to prop up a community. Reddit is still where you have to go for anything even remotely niche, since Reddit is thousands of times the size of the Fediverse. For example, if you wanted to get an alternative to the Dota 2 subreddit, you'd need a community maybe a 10th the size of Reddit's Dota 2 community - equivalent to 5% of the Fediverse posting on a weekly basis. Right now, its roughly 0.0004% of the Fediverse, for reference.
I've DM'd you the key. Enjoy!
I have for some, and had the same issues, but its solved now. Apparently secureboot messes with the GPU drivers or something. I turned that off and its working fine now.
This seems to have fixed it! Thank you!
Unfortunately its not just Portal thats the issue. Its everything.
It is connected to the graphics card. Like I said, it ran fine on Windows so its not a hardware issue.
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?
It feels like there has been some dropoff, particularly in higher-budget areas. Big studios seem to be taking fewer risks, and small creators have less money (and time by extention) to spend on art.
That said, it also feels like discoverability has gotten far worse. Social media has become increasingly insular, more personalized, more algorighmic, and ultimately harder to explore. Its not like the old days, where you could find a new thing, even from a random person's forum signature.
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Maybe its a bit of a cheat answer, but the only song the comes to mind is I Like Trains by LilDeuceDeuce and Tomska.