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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 🤷‍♀️. Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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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[–] 3 points 5 hours ago* (2 children)

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?

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  • [–] 2 points 4 hours ago

    Honestly? Cause much of the entirety of the US tech capitalist model is just digital feudalism.

    Create a compelling reason to join your digital kingdom then when enough people move there you put up the enclosures and start profiting off exploiting your subjects and charging tolls to people wanting to access them.

    And ideally enough of that peasantry remain dependent on your digital commons that realistically they can't leave.

    The upside is that this process naturally lends itself toward enshitification over time. The downside is that unlike messageboards of old, social media deploys incredibly addictive algorithms to keep a core type of user engaged. And then those habits harden and leaving feels impossible.

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