according to reddit they had 918 million Monthly Active Users (MAU) in 2022, then they stopped reporting it for I assume stock reasons 🤷♀️. Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.
The widely shared number for Lemmy MAU is ~40,000. I’ve heard this shared for many years and I wasn’t sure if it was accurate anymore. The actual numbers are easy to find so I added all of the totals from piefed statistics page for Lemmy + Piefed + Mbin.
It turned out to be 40,272. guess the number was correct after all!
https://piefed.social/statistics?software=Lemmy
so that’s 1,000,000,000 vs 40,000
that’s 0.004%! I lowkey forgot how big reddit is.
Accounts. Not people.
Only 1 oyster in about 10 000 will form a pearl.
So, when the war starts, each one of us has to take on 1000 people and ~24,000 bots?!
Bonus c/autism has 10.6K subscribers implying that a quarter of our users are on the spectrum!
Seems low tbh, I bet some just aren’t subbed to that community
Yeah, haha
*glances around nervously
Yeah there’s no way reddit has a billion users. Not human ones. They’re doing everything they can to push people away. I’d be surprised if their user growth wasn’t actually negative.
There are dozens of us.
DOZENS.
In other words, you’re saying that every Lemmy user is worth 25,000 Redditors.
I truly doubt Reddit is actually growing if you discount for bots, but I reckon it may be wishful thinking.
that’s why I used the 2022 number, the “projected” 2026 number is 1.5billion
Who gives a shit
Indeed, 'tis a silly place.
There are 450 million people in the world with English as their mother tongue. There are a lot of people who speak English, but I’m guessing they prefer social media in their own language or are not proficient enough to not be called out on Reddit. Of the 450 million, around half would be out of the age group that is likely to be interested in Reddit. Around half of those are women who, again, are less likely to be interested in Reddit. I have no hard figures or evidence of any of this, but it seems unlikely to me that there are 1000 million human users on Reddit.
I don’t think reddit had an age group, sure most people are probably in their 20s and 30s but there are plenty in their 60s and 70s too
… and what proportions of lemmy vs reddit users are bots or alt / sock puppet accounts?
But are we able to parse out how many of those active users are bots?
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
In my book you dozens of guys and gals are so much cooler than the Reddit masses.
Quality over quantity
where’s the quality?
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