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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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.

EDIT: for all the people saying my data is inaccurate, I know. There’s many factors that offset the accurate statistics of what a ‘user’ is. I’ll list a few, including some nobody else has considered

  • reddits estimate includes bot accounts
  • lemmys estimate includes bot accounts
  • reddit estimate includes alt accounts
  • lemmys estimate includes alt accounts (arguably moreso than reddit due to ppl having accounts on multiple instances)
  • reddits estimate includes signed out accounts, lemmys does not
  • VPN / dynamic routers can largely bias reddits number
  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date

I’m literally a college dropout because I’m bad at math, I just looked up numbers and divided them.

instead of constantly winging about data inaccuracies how about yall do something about it. comment a more accurate estimation and I’ll edit my posts title and give credit. stupid smelly nerds

  • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
    151·
    1 day ago

    When you step into a non-bot place like Lemmy, it becomes apparent just how flooded Reddit is.

    • Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      1 day ago

      15 year old reddit account and recently had my first ever ban (3 days) for making an unfavourable comment about China, lol. Thanks to the ban I revisited Lemmy and found how nice it is to actually interact with real people. Now I don’t really go on reddit unless to do some research.

      • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        18 hours ago

        Not saying it won’t or even doesn’t have bots, its just not a big enough target yet to be worth the investment flooding the place with bots. It is one thing to have a bot doing what ever if 100,000 people are going to read it, it is another if it is only a hundred people. Return on investment is far too low, for now.

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          2·
          18 hours ago

          The investment is a fraction of a cent, give or take… Or zero, if you already have the hardware (like a 3 year old laptop is enough). I run a local model on my 2022 MacBook and it gives me perfectly reasoned answers (mostly about foreign language grammar or baking recipes).

          • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
            2·
            14 hours ago

            While that is true, it is also much easier to go for the low hanging fruit and reddit posts would get a much higher return on investment. It also help that Lemmy is not in the mainstream (yet) so the caliber of people here is a bit more skeptical towards anything that smells like generative junk.

        • Tja@programming.devEnglish
          1·
          19 hours ago

          How do you even begin to measure that?

          My anecdotal evidence is greatly biased towards reddit, since there is just more volume, more chances of a high quality comment.