cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.whynotdrs.org/post/494473
Compared against the predominant incumbent social media platforms, the fediverse is very small.
information sources:
To add to this, a supermajority of reddit users are inactive. Recap has shown that even with minimal activity, you end up in the top 1% of reddit users.
Based on that one can calculate that 99% (provably more but reddit recap doesn’t go smaller than 1% on display) are inactive accounts, which means reddits true size lies at around 5 million or less. Less than 5 times Lemmy’s size.
There’s a reason why mentioning the word “Lemmy” on reddit gets you a shadowban now. Because they’re legitimate competition.
Lemmy doesn’t have 1.5 million active users; that’s how many active users the Fediverse as a whole has; most of those are Mastodon users. Lemmy has around 32K active users. So if your 5 million number is right, Reddit is around 156 times larger than us.