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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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  • one last small factor, reddits data is 4 years out of date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

    • skaffi@infosec.pubEnglish
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      1 day ago

      Hm, Stalin would disagree on that one. Good thing you’re not on .ml, or you just might have gotten yourself purged there!

  • eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    1 day ago

    reddits estimate includes signed out accounts, lemmys does not

    That’s going to make a massive difference.

    • Prathas@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      1 day 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.

  • dropped_the_chief@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.

  • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.orgEnglish
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    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?

  • myyass@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    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.worldEnglish
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    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?

    • Snowbeat@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days ago

      Im stopping today, I got locked out of non logged in reddit on mobile about 3 months ago, and I cant even open new reddit without logging in on my pc today, the enshittification is real.

    • FryHyde@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 days 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.

    • 0dxJayB@programming.devEnglish
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      2 days 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

      • gridlock@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        1 day ago

        As a slashdot -> digg -> Reddit -> lemmy refugee, size is much less a problem than greed. Changes designed to milk engagement and ad dollars are what brings out the worst in people.

    • NovaVeles@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 days 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.