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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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

  • gandalf_der_13te@feddit.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 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.

    • dil@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 hour 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
    10·
    4 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

  • NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zipEnglish
    8·
    5 hours ago

    Once Lemmy gets filled out a little more with some Niche communities it will be great.

    Reddit is too big. Comments are useless as the posts have too many responses.

    If the lemmy communities stay the size of a reasonably active forum its exactly what I would want.

    • Dicska@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      3 hours ago

      Obviously it largely depends on where you draw the line for too big and too many responses, but it’s a bit like settlements. You might be able to find one person with one particular niche hobby in a village, but it you want to be sure there are at least a dozen people into the same niche stuff in the same place then you will probably want to look at a large town, or an entire city. Depending on the subject, you might need to head for the capital city.

  • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
    7·
    6 hours ago

    Roughly one in every 25,000 people is worth your time. I like this.

  • HellyBelly@lemmy.todayEnglish
    3·
    5 hours ago

    I’ve jumped ship from Reddit. I would’ve been here sooner but didn’t know about it. I’m a baby here and already I like it better.