[–] [S] 1 point 17 hours ago*

The usual thing to do when you lack reliable data to answer a certain question is to refrain from making broad, sweeping statements on the basis of data that don't support it.

I'm not claiming to be some data analyst with accurate data, literally the first paragraph has me adding like 700,000 people out of nowhere. This is a just a vague estimate to compare the size of Lemmy and Reddit since I haven't seen anyone do it before.

Other people are neither responsible for providing you with the evidence for whatever you want to say, nor does making bullshit claims make other people responsible for disproving them.

I never said they were?? I just offered to edit my post if someone had a better solution than mine since they take issue with my numbers.

it's kind of pointless to argue about the exact ratio

That's literally my point. It's not really feasible to come to a more accurate number, so after listing all the ways the number is inaccurate I offered to let them take a jab at it instead and see for themselves just now difficult it is.

also, "stupid smelly nerds" is a meta reference to a copypasta where someone vents about their experience in a technical field as a noob without being 'correct' in their opinions. I imagine you missed that part of my edit and took it too seriously.
https://github.com/sherlock-project/sherlock/issues/2011

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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 Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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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    this is the source of the image btw


    https://www.reddit.com/r/BatmanArkham/comments/1gpiajj/i_fucked_9_months_ago_what_should_i_name_it/

    the subreddit then proceeded to make Photoshops of the baby for several months with increasingly nonsensical titles

    the full joke is even more convoluted and stupid. here's a YouTuber voice acting the insanity of that sub for a full 7 minutes
    https://youtu.be/Z4wOkh9Ogss

    It's also the source of all the "is he stupid?" jokes, which I quote often

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    I love tomcats big cheeks, sad that they go away once they get neutered :(

    Roni used to have some big cheeks when his previous owner surrendered him to the shelter.

    though it's kinda hard to tell on photo since he's gained some weight since we got him

    also dodo gifs

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