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TIL: For every one Lemmy user there are 25,000 people on Reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 15 hours ago by to c/til@lemmy.world
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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 Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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

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[–] 4 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

If you bridge people from mastodon, pixelfed, remove reddit bot and its dormant accounts, we are still small but not that small 🥰

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  • [–] 3 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 1 hour ago) (1 child)

    Getting Mastodon users into the Threadiverse should be a bigger priority. I mean convincing them to @ Lemmy communities with their posts, or better ways to crosspost/boost their posts into a community

    I wonder if it would be ok if someone made a bot on mastodon.social to follow every Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin community so that they get federated in, kinda like https://lemmy-federate.com/ except for Mastodon

    I filed an issue for this but the project doesn't look very active lately https://github.com/Fedihosting-Foundation-Forks/lemmy-federate/issues/58

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  • [–] 2 points 2 hours ago

    Well true. I also think that mastodon dev should work on group feature as castodon did. I believe that the convergence of microblog and threadiverse is the way.

    The support of Mastodon by PieFed improved my fedilife. There is also mbin and i haven't tried Pylova so i don't know if they plan to support Mastodon.

    I got much more french content to share on the fediverse. For me, the survival of french threadiverse communities are tied to mastodon. Once they comment, react, it will slowly increase participation here.

    I already shared to piefed devs another way to increase their userbase : free software events (ccc,fossdem,capitole du libre...) and meeting people. Because they can find new contributors (devs) and also attract mastodon users by simply showcasing what they do.

    Lemmy was there at CCC.

    But since i'm not part of piefed team, i don't plan to invest myself in this anymore. They will just have to find other contributors for building community and i don't think my french fedifriends are willing to contribute to it either.

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