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TIL: For every one Lemmy user there are 25,000 people on Reddit
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this post was submitted on 10 Nov 2026
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When you step into a non-bot place like Lemmy, it becomes apparent just how flooded Reddit is.
15 year old reddit account and recently had my first ever ban (3 days) for making an unfavourable comment about China, lol. Thanks to the ban I revisited Lemmy and found how nice it is to actually interact with real people. Now I don't really go on reddit unless to do some research.
What on earth would make you think lemmy, a federated system, doesn't have bots?
Not saying it won't or even doesn't have bots, its just not a big enough target yet to be worth the investment flooding the place with bots. It is one thing to have a bot doing what ever if 100,000 people are going to read it, it is another if it is only a hundred people. Return on investment is far too low, for now.
The investment is a fraction of a cent, give or take... Or zero, if you already have the hardware (like a 3 year old laptop is enough). I run a local model on my 2022 MacBook and it gives me perfectly reasoned answers (mostly about foreign language grammar or baking recipes).
While that is true, it is also much easier to go for the low hanging fruit and reddit posts would get a much higher return on investment. It also help that Lemmy is not in the mainstream (yet) so the caliber of people here is a bit more skeptical towards anything that smells like generative junk.
Comment quality is much higher
How do you even begin to measure that?
My anecdotal evidence is greatly biased towards reddit, since there is just more volume, more chances of a high quality comment.
Actually my bad this might be one of the dumbest comments I have ever seen
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