Yeah that’s mainstream for you. And if ever those users started to really migrate to non-corporate social media like the fediverse, you bet I’ll be peacing out to a smaller subset or just chatting on forums and private blogs.

I would be happy for them, but I don’t know if it’s healthy to round up that many users on one platform.

Top comments before I actually read them all are quibbling about how the Reddit number refers to “accounts” rather than people, which is valid,

but let’s be real: not so valid as to move the needle on that ratio very much.

I think the lesson here, is in just how few users are actually needed, in order to have a community that works.

People have this tunnel vision now, that sites like Twitter, which briefly became global information infrastructure and an arbiter of legitimacy, were somehow an inherent good, which has been ruined by Musk et al. I think it was already quite horrible, for our discourse, our culture, our ability to discuss things with nuance, and the fact that the whole world got locked into it has created a permanent albatross around our necks, as we struggle to reestablish a society of laws and science.

40k is probably about as many users as a site or network can have, with very tight controls on bots to be sure, before things get bad. The people who talk about the whole world moving to the Fedi as a “new twitter” free of capitalism, are really lacking imagination in how good the internet could be.

I still believe in the future of this website. While I still browse Reddit. I know that a social media site lives and dies by it’s users. Almost all of the content on social media sites is user-generated. Every website started with a small user base and continued to grow from there. Why should Reddit get to be a for-profit publicly traded company, when besides hosting servers and other cost related expenses, doesn’t create anything of value?

Enjoy it while it lasts.

u/spez accounts for most of those accounts. Fuck u/spez.

When I joined Reddit almost 2 decades ago, it wasn’t nearly as large as when I left. After a point, bigger wasn’t better, hence leaving. Lemmy will grow.

Accounts. Not people.

Only 1 oyster in about 10 000 will form a pearl.

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.

Bonus c/autism has 10.6K subscribers implying that a quarter of our users are on the spectrum!

In other words, you’re saying that every Lemmy user is worth 25,000 Redditors.

So, when the war starts, each one of us has to take on 1000 people and ~24,000 bots?!

I truly doubt Reddit is actually growing if you discount for bots, but I reckon it may be wishful thinking.

… and what proportions of lemmy vs reddit users are bots or alt / sock puppet accounts?