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 Anyways, I’m not trying to be super specific so I’ll go with 1 billion since it’s 4 years out of date anyways.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.
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.
Can confirm that Reddit is not well known outside of a minority of users in Central Europe. I would say this also goes for China/Russia (when they actually able to access it) and i guess most of Africa, not only because of the language barrier. Reddit is very US-centric, and I’d say more than 300m worldwide is streching it.
They’re deliberately pushing hard in India, apparently.