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submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) by QuinnyCoded@sh.itjust.works to c/til@lemmy.world

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 Anyways, I'm not trying to be super specific so I'll go with 1 billion since it's 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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

[-] Cellari@lemmy.world 1 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

Yeah, the odds are at our favour. I can take on 25k redditors no problem lol

Edit: number lol

[-] Magnum@infosec.pub 4 points 1 day ago

Welcome to the top 0.004% my friends.

[-] Malyca@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago
[-] FE80@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago

Sup bitches, I'm cooler than at least 25k people.

[-] eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 12 points 2 days ago

reddits estimate includes signed out accounts, lemmys does not

That's going to make a massive difference.

[-] Prathas@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 days ago

Well, it's not that simple. I accidentally made, like, 5 Lemmy accounts across different instances until I understood how federation works. Now I rotate through them for privacy's sake lol.

[-] 0x0@lemmy.zip 9 points 2 days ago
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[-] Cethin@lemmy.zip 31 points 2 days ago

But every Lemmy users is worth far more than 25,000 Redditors.

[-] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I don't know about that man. Some are worth 1/10th or negative.

[-] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 20 points 2 days ago

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

[-] FryHyde@lemmy.zip 13 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] Denfa@lemmy.world 25 points 2 days ago

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

[-] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 15 points 2 days ago

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

[-] Aemilia@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

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.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 6 points 2 days ago

What on earth would make you think lemmy, a federated system, doesn't have bots?

[-] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[-] Tja@programming.dev 2 points 2 days ago

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).

[-] NovaVeles@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

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.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Comment quality is much higher

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[-] remon@ani.social 156 points 3 days ago

But how many of those are actual human users?

[-] Codpiece@feddit.uk 63 points 3 days ago
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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago

~~people~~

Bots

[-] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 points 2 days ago
[-] Feidry@sh.itjust.works 96 points 3 days ago

Yeah there's no way reddit has a billion users. Not human ones. They're doing everything they can to push people away. I'd be surprised if their user growth wasn't actually negative.

[-] lobut@lemmy.ca 14 points 3 days ago

One of out every eight people are on that website? There's no bloody way. Absolutely impossible.

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[-] CompostMentis@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Wow, great sleuthing. How do we keep most of them over there?

[-] KatherinaReichelt@feddit.org 90 points 3 days ago

You are comparing apples & oranges: Reddit is counting everyone as MAU. Even a not-logged-in guy coming from google opening one page is a MAU for them. The Lemmy statistics are only showing users who are actively doing something. Upvoting, posting, commenting and so on.

[-] SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 14 points 2 days ago

Nah, no way there's a billion active Reddit users. Not in 2022 and even less so in 2026. Only way that were possible is if it is randomly hugely popular in India, which I highly doubt. I don't think it's even available in China. My best guess would be far less. Active users it's probably only a couple of million (excluding 2and accounts and bots), maybe 5 million, maybe 20. Who knows?

[-] dropped_the_chief@lemmy.world 9 points 2 days ago

Whenever people complain about the changes on Reddit, be sure to direct them here... Unless they're twats, then let them wallow in the slop.

[-] mycodesucks@lemmy.world 63 points 3 days ago

There are dozens of us.

DOZENS.

[-] Colonel_Panic_@eviltoast.org 51 points 3 days ago

Here, have my upvote. It's worth 25,000. 🪙

I like it here, I came over from Reddit years ago and the only time I've been back is when searching for random tech or niche hobby stuff and a reddit thread shows up, but that's about to end too due to the login thing.

I'd rather hang out with a small group of friends than be alone in a massive drunken rave. 🤷‍♀️

[-] neidu4@piefed.social 22 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Thanks for the gold, kind stranger

EdIT: Wow, this blew up!!!1

EDIT2: Omg, an upvote. I am touched. My thanks go out to my wonderful parents, my supportive spouse, my agent, my agent's agent, my second-favourite child, my therapist, my therapist's therapist, my high-school drama teacher who said I'd never amount to anything, the guy who held the door at the audition, my personal trainer whom I've never met, my dentist for the quiet moments, my accountant for the creative moments, my lawyer for the other creative moments, my neighbour's dog who barked encouragement at 03:00, my neighbour who owns the dog, the other neighbour who sold the dog to my neighbour, my mother's cousin's former roommate, my great-grandfather's horse, the horse's reluctant biographer, my childhood imaginary friend and his imaginary lawyer, my ex, my ex's new partner, my ex's new partner's ex, whoever left a half-eaten sandwich in the green room, the sandwich, the farmer who grew the wheat for the sandwich, the weather on the day the wheat was grown, the sun for showing up that day, the planet the sun lights up, my sourdough starter, Kevin, the other Kevin, the third Kevin who insists he's not a Kevin, my cat, my cat's imaginary rival, the vet who still won't return my calls, my Wi-Fi router for never giving up on me, the 14 % of the Wi-Fi signal that actually reached me, the man who invented the chair, the chair I'm sitting on right now, the tree that gave its life for the chair, the tree's family, the squirrel who stood by the tree, the squirrel's pension fund, the lady at the bus stop who nodded at me in 2009, the bus, the bus driver's mother, the pothole that built my character, the municipality that never fixed it, my left knee, my right knee for staying out of it, my append8x, which sadly could not be here tonight, my 3,412 followers, all four of them, my sleep paralysis demon for the stellar company, the voice in my head that said "go for it", the other voice that said "don't", the third voice that was just humming, my houseplant Gerald, Gerald's late predecessor, Gerald II, the mysterious stranger who once told me "nice shoes", the shoes, the cobbler of the shoes, the cobbler's cousin who dabbles in cheese, the cheese, the mould that made the cheese great, the lactose-intolerant colleague who still came to the cheese party, the alphabet for the letters, the number 7 for being consistently reliable, the number 8 for being a sideways infinity of encouragement, gravity for keeping me grounded, whoever invented Tuesdays, the Tuesday that changed everything, the stage, the floor under the stage, the Earth under the floor, the cosmic dust that made the Earth, the Big Bang for its explosive support, whatever came before the Big Bang for being so non-committal, my future self for pulling the strings, my past self for not stopping me, the multiverse versions of me who didn't win and who I hope are doing fine, the Academy, which I'm told is not who is giving me this award, the person who actually is giving me this award, the person who is confused why I'm still typing, the orchestra playing me off, the orchestra's union rep, the exit sign that has been glowing meaningfully at me for the last ten minutes, this guys dead wife, and finally, you, yes, you, for reading this entire list. You know who you are. I don't. But thank you.

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[-] cardboard_chef@sh.itjust.works 13 points 2 days 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.

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[-] Rothe@piefed.social 39 points 3 days ago
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[-] pseudo@jlai.lu 54 points 3 days ago

There isn't one human out of ten with a reddit account.
I'm not sure that Facebook reach that in its better days.
Taking into consideration a quarter of the population didn't have an access to the internet in 2025 (according to the world bank data), and considering that Reddit is not well know in many european place, that cannot be.

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[-] Focal@pawb.social 19 points 3 days 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

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[-] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 16 points 2 days ago

Look how many bots they need to mimic a fraction of our power!!!!

[-] entwine@programming.dev 32 points 3 days ago
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[-] MangioneDontMiss@feddit.nl 4 points 2 days ago

yeah, but half of those reddit users will be banned soon.

[-] GrumpyGrampa@lemmy.zip 14 points 3 days ago

24000 on Reddit are BOTS……..

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[-] myyass@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days 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.world 8 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

how many of those 25000 are actually people and not bots?

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