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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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.
Only 1 oyster in about 10 000 will form a pearl.
Accounts. Not people.
So, when the war starts, each one of us has to take on 1000 people and ~24,000 bots?!
“People”
It’s at least 2/3 bots. If not upwards of 80%.
Any subreddit that glorifies engagement above all else is just chock full of them. The relationship advice, the angry experiences, the politics, and all the nostalgia posting. It’s all infected with 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.
Who gives a shit
Indeed, 'tis a silly place.
But are we able to parse out how many of those active users are bots?
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
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
In my book you dozens of guys and gals are so much cooler than the Reddit masses.
“People”
The longer it stays that way the longer we have before the inevitable enshiitfication and we have to start looking for somewhere else to go.
