Seems like a major server not reporting their numbers.
That makes a lot of sense.
Possibly an outage from a patch no?
I hate the fact that the vertical axis starts at 7 million, making the drop seem deceptively large
We need to post harder, not smarter
What would cause this?
Assuming it’s not a bug, maybe Americans busy with Thanksgiving? I know I was on less as a result
I’m thinking that, a lot of users were hanging out with relatives and traveling.
Yeah, I barely looked at Lemmy Thursday - Saturday.
som kind of bot going down maybe?
Turkey day travel and spending time with family by prolific posters is likely.
This should say total posts, not average, right?
I am thinking it is probably comments and not posts as well.
People preparing xmas gifts and planning for holidays?
That looks much more like a data artifact than an accurate representation of behavior.
I think that the trajectory of the three low dots matches the overall slope very closely in a way that looks far more like a flat subtraction of all three. If it was behavioral, I think you’d see the behavior come and go over the course of several days.