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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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

    • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7·
      55 minutes ago

      As someone that is 100% non-biased, yes I completely agree with this self aggrandizing position.

      • FryHyde@lemmy.zipEnglish
        3·
        37 minutes ago

        furthermore, I choose to consider this empirical evidence that verifies my own biases common sense beliefs

  • Denfa@lemmy.worldEnglish
    12·
    2 hours ago

    Are they all people though? Doesn’t reddit have a bot and paid trolling problem?

    • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      55 minutes ago

      When you step into a non-bot place like Lemmy, it becomes apparent just how flooded Reddit is.

  • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    1 hour ago

    Hey can anyone tell me where to find a dick up myyass?

    What do you think of my cool AI food picture!?

    Where’s the best to go eat?

    TIL: that reddit is full of bullshit!

    Did you know… I didn’t care!

    What’s the best whatevermycallit?

    BREAKING! myyass with balls!

    YSK! it’s another hidden AD!

    This just in! myyass!

    Hey look at me smile! I got an OnlyPhans!

    The list goes on…

    AI mod: your post has been removed!

    Yeah I preferred cat pictures and people actually trying to communicate.

    But wait! There’s more! Now link your phone or facebook or whatever.

    No thank you.

  • Bwaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    2 hours ago

    …who were at One Time on reddit. How many like me who just stopped going there when it went full scale evil?

    • FryHyde@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      10 minutes ago

      I don’t know about full skill evil, but I stopped using Reddit entirely when they started charging obscene amounts of money for their API. I had an app called Baconreader that I really liked, and its developer just essentially stopped making money because they couldn’t afford the API fees.

    • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      53 minutes ago

      Yep. I am only new here but Reddit use had plummeted over the last few years. Here in Australia it looks like you now need an account to even view a sub-reddit. I don’t think I will ever go back there.

    • 0dxJayB@programming.devEnglish
      1·
      48 minutes ago

      I’m new fairly new to lemmy. Reddit still seems useful, particularly because as the OP says due to number of users. You might get faster and broader discussions and ideas to whatever you’re looking for. Not sure why/when it started feeling negative on reddit, maybe that’s one of the side effect of large number of users and may apply to Lemmy too once userbase grows similarly

  • neomachino@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Ehh, aside from all the bots, I left reddit a few years ago along with my 3 accounts and everyone I know IRL who was on reddit has stopped using it, mostly because the quality has gone downhill.

    I know a guy who doesn’t stand for anything, wouldn’t care if spez drove to his house and threw literal shit at his kids, would keep using reddit if he kept enjoying it, still eventually got rid of reddit because he finally realized he wasn’t talking to people and half the posts were nonsense.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      27 minutes ago

      ever since the forced login, and i had to use a reskin method i used it less, after a year of ban, i made an account for niche topics, and found myself using it more than id like.

  • cardboard_chef@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    9·
    3 hours ago

    I just discovered Lemmy recently, and it feels like discovering reddit for the first time back in 08-09. After the more recent updates, and the flood of bots, reddit just feels insufferable now.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      25 minutes ago

      what is with the sudden Dinner diaries, and aita post, we know most are faked, or written up drama(sometimes the poster is a writer and would write fake stories to gauge responses.

  • urinebubbles@lemmy.zipEnglish
    4·
    2 hours ago

    Reddit is an extemely toxic and restrictive environment ruled by AI, bots, and loser mods who will ban you for absolutely no reason. It is only a shadow of what it used to be after the great digg migration. It won’t be getting my clicks anymore.

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
    8·
    6 hours ago

    we need more users. there’s barely any content on here for any niche topic, and i miss discussing about random very specific topics. for example: spaceflight, astrophysics, etc.

    we need more users. i’m slowly witnessing what feels like the death of feddit.org, because there’s just not enough users to post interesting content. (NO, i cannot “just post more content myself then”. i cannot keep a platform alive myself, and in fact i’m not even trying as long as i don’t feel that there’s enough people who would even be interested in seeing that content.)

    we need more users. not just for the niche content, but also because i think that it would be good if people (the public, not just a few nerds) knew about the possibility of providing information to an open platform, instead of a closed for-profit one.

    size is not what made reddit bad. commercialization is. they restricted access and pushed ragebait (for engagement baiting) and adware, and that’s what made it bad. lemmy will not suffer the same fate just because it grows bigger. as long as it stays non-commercial, it will get better as it gets bigger. thus we should strive to have more users on the platform.

    • Tollana1234567@lemmy.todayEnglish
      1·
      24 minutes ago

      the problem is people were to quick to jump to another platform, and dint stick to one to grow it. when the last instance shut down, they went to piefed, other platforms with even less people on it, it just dilutes the population too much.

    • partofthevoice@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      3 hours ago

      There was a subreddit for everything. “The front page of the internet.” You could find subs for birds shitting on things, with buff guy arms photoshopped onto them.

      That was what attracted me to Reddit. I first subscribed to things like AskReddit, NoStupidQuestions, TodayILearned, AmITheAsshole, MildlyInteresting, WhatIsThisThing, … stuff like that.

      Latter I dove more deeply into niches like AskPhilosophy, LearnPython, JavaScript, LinuxQuestions, HomeAutomation, Consciousness, PostgreSQL, …

      Then I started also using it for news…

      It had everything. Every little division had its own subculture. If I didn’t like one, I could find alternatives — plenty of them.

      It also became somewhat of an archive too, given that you’d use Google to search Reddit. You could find anything on there.

      I mostly learned of Lemmy because I began to despite Reddit. That’s not really an effective marketing strategy. Lemmy needs something more than “Fediverse” when at least half of the population isn’t willing to understand what that is or outright accept it as a necessary solution. Lemmy needs to compete, giving more people a reason to participate. If it can’t incentivize more people to participate, then more people aren’t going to participate.

      I don’t know what that looks like for Lemmy. It’s not whatever Lemmy does right now, though.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      The only way you’ll get that content is by posting it. Ofc everyone wants infinite users so they can sit back and get the content they want to lurk on with no effort. I do too lol

  • Focal@pawb.socialEnglish
    14·
    8 hours ago

    So if I get one upvote here on lemmy, imma just go ahead and inflate my ego as if 25000 people upvoted it!

    My psychologist is gonna be so proud of me! :D