Can anyone explain the reason behind the drop in MAU that happened end of January?

[fake4000@lemmy.world]

Noticed this drop and would love to know the reason behind it.

[illness@infosec.pub]

Lunar New Year started on January 29.

[breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca]

The MAU counter at mastodon.social reset. It happened at about the same time they had an issue and had to recover data so I think it was related to that.

[spacenoodle@lemmy.world]

Eine Katze broke in and ate the Maus

[3dmvr@lemm.ee]

I joined

[foggy@lemmy.world]

Stuff like that is usually some change made to catch bots.

[iopq@lemmy.world]

Chinese bots resting

[fossilverbrechen@lemm.ee]

tiktok was not banned maybe

[homesweethomemrl@lemmy.world]

a demented rapist took control of the country and everyone fucking peaced out for a few days.