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TIL: For every one Lemmy user there are 25,000 people on Reddit (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 13 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 ๐Ÿคทโ€โ™€๏ธ. Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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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[โ€“] 10 points 5 hours ago (7 children)

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.

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  • [โ€“] 11 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (6 children)

    I wish more folks understood that bigger isn't better.
    People out there praying for the next eternal September.
    I tell them. Now is the good times. Now is what you will lament missing later. Enjoy now.
    Lemmy is great.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 5 hours ago* (1 child)

    This is so true! I feel like my social media history is over and over switching platforms because they turn into shit once they get too big. And now its reddit that got to that point (a while ago tbh). Not sure how to break that cycle but the federation gives me hopes.

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  • [โ€“] 7 points 3 hours ago*

    Lemmy cannot be part of that same cycle because it has no owner. Those other services turning to shit coincided with them getting big, but it was not the direct cause. Those sites got big because they had a desirable service and an acceptable monetization model. Once they get big, the owner invariably turns the monetization screws more and more until it triggers an exodus big enough to effectively kill the service.

    Lemmy can't do that because its just a foss self-hosted software program that a bunch of private individuals and groups are hosting and inviting us to join, with barely extant trivial barriers to migrating your account and history to another copy of Lemmy on some other guy's server.

    The quality may diminish as the lowest common denominator deteriorates, but there can't really ever be monetization that is at all onerous or everyone will likely bail to a neighboring instance overnight.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 5 hours ago (3 children)

    I can see value with bigger, more robust platforms that can house smaller communities. More platforms like Lemmy could allow for a future where entire communities can move platforms if it no longer suits them or a better fit emerges would be nice. Need more platforms that don't constantly abuse their users with dark patterns for that to happen though.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 hours ago* (2 children)

    Fortunately, there really is no motive to implement dark patterns in FOSS software, and its addition would promptly trigger a fork.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 1 hour ago (1 child)

    That's why I'm here. Really enjoying it, it reminds me of early days of reddit when it was just a bunch of nerds. I saw a socially awkward penguin meme yesterday, just need some gammer aficionados in the comments now.

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  • [โ€“] 1 point 18 minutes ago* (last edited 10 minutes ago)

    I think that you see these new services attract different cohorts of people based on the service they provide and their overall renown. The first group that shows up seems to almost always consist heavily of programmers and system administrators, then IT generalists, then power users and gamers, and finally the general populace with no specific demographics.

    Each group seems to have certain preferences, some of which do not align. For example, the first 2 groups seem to prefer the service have a small, like-minded user base, liking it less as it grows and broadens. The later groups seem disinterested in a service unless it has at least some certain minimum, but large market share.

    So, the gamers may yet come! We just need enough activity to attract their interest, which can be a "chicken or egg" problem.

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