this post was submitted on 15 Oct 2024
260 points (95.8% liked)

Fediverse

28046 readers
708 users here now

A community to talk about the Fediverse and all it's related services using ActivityPub (Mastodon, Lemmy, KBin, etc).

If you wanted to get help with moderating your own community then head over to !moderators@lemmy.world!

Rules

Learn more at these websites: Join The Fediverse Wiki, Fediverse.info, Wikipedia Page, The Federation Info (Stats), FediDB (Stats), Sub Rehab (Reddit Migration), Search Lemmy

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] Jumuta@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 day ago (3 children)

no it's not?

you can see the axes and op even mentions that it's a 5% drop

the graph is clearly just fitted to the data

[–] Blaze@feddit.org 11 points 23 hours ago

I edited the title after their comment, it wasn't that clear at the beginning

[–] lennivelkant@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 7 hours ago

In my classes on analytics, we were taught to prefer using normalised axes starting at 0 to more accurately put changes into perspective.

[–] ThomasLadder_69@lemmy.ml 5 points 4 hours ago

the graph is clearly just fitted to the data

That's the problem. It's heavily skewed when compared to the greater overall engagement statistics.