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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 QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works 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 Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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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[–] Nola@piefed.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (2 children)

TBH I also think that feature can become it's own problem too.

The Fediverse may be good at combating certain forms of enshittification(it's too small right now to know for sure), but what qualifies as such can easily drift into ideological balkanization, purity testing, and arbitrary in-group/out-group policing....Which I already see happening here during my short stay.

And social networks thrive and grow on cross-community connectivity, discovery, and engagement, excessive ideological sorting and fragmentation then undermines that. That is a core contradiction in the Fediverse that I am not sure is easily reconciled.

Where the incentivizes toward that balkanizing also increases the risk of creating a network even more unfriendly or overwhelming to newcomers to navigate(ideological boundaries they didn't create, didn't consent to, and may not even understand), while risks decreasing broader political dialogue, coalition-building, and productive disagreement that makes town square social media what it is and not just a more convoluted Discord for messageboards.

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[–] nymnympseudonym@piefed.social 1 point 52 minutes ago

ideological balkanization

ofc this is a design flaw in humans, not in the Fedi protocols

Still we as good technologists can try to make tools that encourage exposure to, and tolerance of, diversity

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[–] Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus 1 point 2 hours ago

Sure, but in reality this will cause networks to appear with differing values - some left, some right, and some inbetween (and some enshittified and abandoned). This structure will at least always allow for exchange between these "sub-networks" of federated instances, allowing to find common ground.

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